eSagan 🇮🇳 @crackurbones@qoto.org
Joined Nov 2019
🦠 The neuroinvasive potential of SARS‐CoV2 may be at least partially responsible for the respiratory failure of #COVID19 patients - Increasing evidence shows that #coronaviruses are not always confined to the respiratory tract and that they may also invade the central nervous system
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jmv.25728
https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/fjfg05/the_neuroinvasive_potential_of_sarscov2_may_be_at/
#covid19 test: ICMR intensifies random testing to check for covid-19 - The Economic Times
https://m.economictimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/icmr-intensifies-random-testing-to-check-for-covid-19/articleshow/74643047.cms
Each of the 51 Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) laboratories is to test 10 such samples every week. The exercise began on March 15. Before this, the ICMR had picked up 20 samples and tested them at 13 labs to check for community transmission between February 15 and 29.
Shri Kodanda Ramachadramuthry Temple, Andhra Pradesh, India
https://www.reddit.com/r/IndiaSpeaks/comments/fjhylt/shri_kodanda_ramachadramuthry_temple_andhra/
శ్రీ కోడంద రామచద్రముత్రీ ఆలయం
#ఆంధ్రప్రదేశ్ #AndhraPradesh #India #కోదండ #కోదండ_రామాలయం #IndianHeritage #IncredibleIndia
Computer Science Students Build Coronavirus Tracking Website | UVA Today
https://news.virginia.edu/content/computer-science-students-build-coronavirus-tracking-website
Physics Professor Lou Bloomfield Explains the Crucial Math Behind Social Distancing | UVA Today
https://news.virginia.edu/content/physics-professor-lou-bloomfield-explains-crucial-math-behind-social-distancing
Raag Gorakh Kalyan | Soumik Datta & Sukhvinder Singh ‘Pinky’ | #Sarod & #Tabla | Music of India
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mshi-7hfKJM
Recorded at #DarbarFestival on 25 Oct 2018, at London’s Barbican Centre:
-Soumik Datta (sarod)
-Sukhvinder Singh ‘Pinky’ (tabla)
#IndianMusic #Raaga #Rāga #राग #सरोद #तबला
The Double Statue of Mephistopheles & Margaretta, Salar Jung Museum, Hyderabad.[768×1024]
🇻🇳 The stone altar of Đồng Dương, #ChampaKingdom, 9th to 10th century, declared as a National treasure of #Vietnam in 2019
https://www.reddit.com/r/ArtefactPorn/comments/fidkvy/the_stone_altar_of_đồng_dương_champa_kingdom_9th/
This caterpillar could potentially help solve one of the world's most pressing environmental problems: plastic waste. It can chomp through plastic — even polyethylene, a common and non-biodegradable plastic currently clogging up landfills and seas. https://t.co/5rk69yR2fX
We asked astronomers: are we alone in the Universe? The answer was surprisingly consistent
http://theconversation.com/we-asked-astronomers-are-we-alone-in-the-universe-the-answer-was-surprisingly-consistent-132088
Avocado a day might give obese adults a brain boost: Study - Lifestyle News
https://www.indiatoday.in/lifestyle/health/story/avocado-a-day-might-give-obese-adults-a-brain-boost-study-1654530-2020-03-11
#ChatrapatiShivaji Maharaj's murti consecrated by himself at the Gopuram of Mallikarjunam Temple in Sri Sailam at the time of his Dakshin Digvijaya in 1677. The Gopuram erected by him was named after him and is still called Shivaji Gopuram
https://www.reddit.com/r/IndiaSpeaks/comments/fij8zt/chatrapati_shivaji_maharajs_murti_consecrated_by/
Statues of Agastya Muni and Nandi were recently discovered while digging in #Yogyakarta, #Indonesia 🇮🇩
https://www.reddit.com/r/IndiaSpeaks/comments/fiea1w/statues_of_agastya_muni_and_nandi_were_recently/
🔸 The parasympathetic and the sympathetic systems are commonly known as 'fight or flight' and 'rest or digest' — and that's true, if we were always at full sympathetic tone or at full parasympathetic tone.
That's not the case. Usually, we're somewhere in the middle.
🔸 We can go sympathetic or parasympathetic according to the needs of the moment, but as we go from being born to old age, we are moving in a steady direction towards more sympathetically dominated.
🔸 Young kids are very parasympathetically dominated. Now, once you get into older age, the sympathetic domination is going to drive up heart rate and it's going to drive up blood pressure — that sounds like hypertension.
🔸 Nothing's changed in old people from childhood, except that now they're sufficiently sympathetically dominated that they've encountered this hypertension.
The beauty of #Kerala is beyond imagination | IG : @soulandfuel
🔴 The sympathetic and the parasympathetic systems.
🔸 These are two different systems, but they both work through two chain neurons. They're both automatic. And they're both motor systems that are targeting three different types of tissues —smooth muscle, cardiac muscle, and glands.
They're working to produce different functional ends.
🔸 The sympathetic system comes entirely from neurons in the thoracic cord.
🔸 The parasympathetic system from two places — the cranium through cranial nerves and also from the sacral cord.
And so because of that, this is often called the craniosacral system — the parasynthetics or the craniosacral system.
🔸 The parasympathetics intervate the heart, and they drive heart rate down. The sympathetics intervate the heart and they drive heart rate up.
🔸 The parasympathetics come out of the cranium to innervate the eye. And they make the pupil small. And the sympathetics come out and they make the pupil big. So they're working in opposition.
🔸 So the sacral cord is innervating three tissues — it's innervating the bladder, the colon, and the sexual organs.
🔸 And the thoracic cord innervates those too, but they do different things. For instance, the parasympathetics are critical to sexual arousal whereas the sympathetics are critical to sexual climax.
🔸 The sympathetics have a few special places that only they innervate — sweat glands, cutaneous (pertaining to skin) blood vessels, adrenal medulla, piloerection.
🔸 Sweat glands are turned on by the sympathetic system and there's no turning them off, for instance, by the parasympathetics. The parasympathetics have nothing to do with the sweat glands.
🔸 The point of the cutaneous blood vessels is whether they are constricted or dilated. And the parasympathetics have nothing to do with that. The sympathetics completely control that.
🔸 So, for instance, as you're exercising, you build up heat, start sweating, and you also dilate your vessels to release heat into the environment.
🔸 Another consequence of whether there is more or less blood going to the skin is whether your blood pressure is going to go up or down.
🔸 So, if you send a lot of blood into your skin, blood pressure will go up and if you constrict your skin blood vessels your blood pressure will go down. And that's a major way in which we control blood pressure.
🔸 The final tissue that is only innervated by the sympathetics is the adrenal medulla. And the adrenal medulla is the organ the, the gland that pumps out cortisol, a stress hormone which is lacking in people with Addison's disease.
Prof Béla Bollobás (1963), explains the significance of Indian mathematician Ramanujan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGFK7rhpbWk
A neurotoxin produced by harmful blue-green algae has been found to target a gene linked to #ParkinsonsDisease, according to new research.
https://imb.uq.edu.au/article/2020/03/algae-toxin-linked-parkinsons
https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/fhv4s8/a_neurotoxin_produced_by_harmful_bluegreen_algae/
Men with an aggressive genetic disease that leads to blindness regained some of their lost vision after receiving doses of a corrective gene. #ResearchHighlight https://t.co/pPYYR8pDO3
Joined Nov 2019
