Extracellular matrix Essays

  • Periodontal Disease Analysis

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    Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs), assume a key part in periodontal disease. Periodontal disease is an aggravation of the gums which takes place after gingivitis when left untreated. Abundance microorganisms make pockets in the gums that harm the supporting structure of the teeth. MMPs contain enzymatic movement which is managed by tissue inhibiting matrix metalloproteinases (TIMPs). These proteins aid tissue redesigning and furthermore debase the extracellular matrix found inside the gums and result

  • Wound Healing Research Paper

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    vasoconstriction and thrombocyte clumping. Following is an influx of fibroblasts (which help clot the wound opening), and inflammatory macrophages. Next, granulation tissue creates a framework for forming permanent connective tissue. This last stage involves of matrix fiber reconstruction, angiogenesis, and cell differentiation and proliferation, and epidermal remodeling [1]. The previously mentioned biomarkers are mainly involved in this last stage of the wound healing process.

  • Milica Radisica Case Study

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    Professor Milica Radisica and her team from University of Toronto have developed a tissue scaffold that allows sheets of cardiomyocytes or heart cells to attach together in a similar fashion as velcro. This innovation is biocompatible which means that it can function with living systems such as tissue without causing any harm. This “Tissue Velcro” can be the next step in creating artificial tissues that can instantly replace damaged tissues. While some tissues such as bone, epithelial, and fibrous

  • Aesthetic Scaffolds: A Case Study

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    The field of tissue engineering still debates whether or not the use of natural scaffolds (ECM) or synthetic scaffolds are ideal when it comes to the longevity, mechanical strength, and efficiency of engineered tissue following transplantation. Although both natural and synthetic scaffolds can be used in tissue engineering, the benefits of creating natural scaffolds through decellularization of the ECM greatly outweighs those of synthetic scaffolds. Fishman and colleagues (2014) highlight these

  • The Two Major Fluid Compartments In The Body

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    Intracellular and extracellular are the 2 major fluid compartments in the body. Extracellular contains intravascular and interstitial body parts. The intracellular compartment is known as the fluid inside of the cell. Extracellular is fluid outside of the cell which consists of the Intravascular which is the fluid located in the vessel and interstitial which is fluid between the vessel and the cell. Each compartment encompasses a certain amount of fluid proportionate for the size of one’s body and

  • Hyperreality In Bladerunner

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    For my essay, I will be analyzing and comparing the cultural representation of hyperreality from two films: Bladerunner (1982) directed by Ridley Scott and The Matrix (1999) directed by the Wachowskis. Both films are of the science fiction genre. The main reason I have chosen to compare these two particular films is because they share the common theme of figuring out what’s real and what’s not. Hyperreality is an over exaggeration of the real, which ultimately deems the replica as a fake “real”

  • Plato's Republic: The Allegory Of The Cave

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    The allegory of the cave first published in Platos Republic was retold in Cottingham text and discussed in Class. An allegory is a story used to reveal a hidden meaning. Plato’s hidden meaning revolves around reality, the perception of reality the perception of truth. Plato paints a picture of humans being captive in a cave, bound in a manner where that cannot move and can only see what is before them and what is before them is the cave wall. In this cave behind the prisoners is a great source of

  • The Matrix, Plato's Allegory Of The Cave

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    science-fiction movie The Matrix, Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave”, and Golden-Globe award winning film The Truman Show all have the same underlying theme of escaping an artificial reality. “The Allegory of the Cave” is a dialogue that criticizes human perception. In the dialogue, prisoners draw a parallel between the dwellers in the cave who believe the shadows on the walls are real to humans who believe in perceptions based on empirical knowledge. In the movie, The Matrix “the matrix” is a computer engineered

  • Personal Narrative-Home

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    The NEU alongside with SWAT gathered for a briefing for tonight take down. They went through all specifications from the extensive backup equipment installed in their unmarked surveillance van to implanting a mini video surveillance camera and recording conversation devices into Edith’s earrings. The team relied on Edith who’s the core of the undercover to dig out information and show proof of evidence to bring these drug traffickers down. Edith arrived at her destination dressing genuinely sexy

  • Hsc32 Unit 4 Test

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    Tutor’s Comments: Q−1:[5×2 marks] Answer each of the following as True or False (justify your answer): If the matrices A and B commute, thenA2B = BA2. True. A2B = AAB = ABA=BAA=BA2 The reduced row echelon form of the matrix is . True [■(3&3&1@3&-1&0@-1&-1&2)] □(→┴(swap R_3 by R_1 then-R_1 ) ) [■(1&1&-2@3&-1&0@3&3&1)] □(→┴(R_2-3R_1&R_3-3R_1 ) ) [■(1&1&-2@0&-4&6@0&0&7)] □(→┴(-1/4 R_2 ) ) [■(1&1&-2@0&1&2⁄3@0&0&7)] →┴(R_1-R_2 ) [■(1&0&(-8)⁄3@0&1&2⁄3@0&0&7)] →┴( 1/7

  • Figurative Language In Coraline By Neil Gaiman

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    Manipulation is often used in books and stories of the horror genre. This technique is commonly used in the book Coraline by Neil Gaiman. Whether this is through the “other” characters or through the thoughts in Coraline’s mind, it is present. This piece of writing uses descriptions and figurative language that portrays the “other” world as it is darker and more frightening than our reality. In Coraline’s words from page 69 “It was so familiar --- that was what made it feel so truly strange”. An

  • Comparing The Matrix And Plato's Allegory Of The Cave

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    The most evident similarities between the motion picture The Matrix, Plato’s Allegory of the Cave and Descartes’ Meditation is that these works question and inquires the truth of the World around us and raises doubt about the legitimacy of our feeling of recognition. In other words, all three pieces of work question what is real and what reality is. The Matrix is a film that goes up against the genuine and the part of a convoluted, fake digital reality. Before Mr. Anderson (Neo) revelation of

  • Film Analysis Of Cloverfield

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    Introduction In this essay, I am going to analysis the film named “Cloverfield”, which was released on 18th January 2008 in North America. I will talk about the genre, key scenes, media institution, other media company, film marketing, marketing mix, media technology, audience, digital platforms, convergence and regulation. It was a PG13 film which mean parental guidance is required for children if they are under 13. It was directed by Matt Reeves and starring with Lizzy Caplan, Jessica Lucas, T

  • The Journey Of Jesus Christ In The Matrix

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    people have always been looking forward to for approximately 2000years now. According to the Christians, the narration is not any little fictional narrative that an author has come about, but it is believed to have happened in the real life story. The Matrix, just as the salvation story has a direction of the Savior depicted in it. It is a Christian movie that brings out the reality of fiction not forgetting to put out the best about every actor. The main character in the film is Neo, which in one way

  • Similarities Between The Matrix And Plato's Allegory Of The Cave

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    unexamined life is a life not worth living” - Socrates. Both ‘The Matrix’ and Plato’s allegory of ‘The Cave’ develops a question of reality and how the world is perceived. This can be closely connected to one of the great Greek philosopher’s sayings where an “unexamined life is a life not worth living”. Socrates states this due to the increasing number of citizens who lived their lives without questioning the world around them. ‘The Matrix’ and Plato’s allegory explore how when the world is properly examined

  • Comparing Plato's Cave And The Pyramid Of Capitalism

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    Comparing the three images together, two seem to be more closely alike through the animation. The Plato’s Cave seems to greatly contrast from the other two images. The “pyramid of capitalism” poster and closely resembles the first image due to vivid separation of people and their classes starting off with the ones in power on the top going down to the poor. In both the photos looking at them in a political way, you can right away assume as to what the images are representing which is capitalism.

  • Plato's Message Of The Cave

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    The Matrix’s message is the same as Plato’s Cave Analogy: belief isn’t knowledge and opinion isn’t a fact. There is more to see than meets the eye. Plato’s story of the cave is an analogy. He explains reality through a story of several prisoners who have been chained since birth in a dark cave. These prisoners face a blank wall with a fire behind them and a low wall between the fire and the prisoners. They cannot turn their heads or move. All they see is the cave wall in front of them. On the cave

  • Shakespeare's Othello: The Manipulator In Fiction

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    The Manipulator in Fiction Every good story has a character which uses manipulation to get their way hiding in the shadows. The manipulator character archetype is used as a type of antagonist in storytelling. These characters are known for making other do whatever they wish for, either by using their words or their actions. Manipulators are typically deceitful and are controlling others for their own benefit. The characters Iago from William Shakespeare's’ Othello, Tamlin from the A Court of Thorns

  • Essay On District 9 And Avatar

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    Film analysis Benedikt Blomendahl The movies District 9 and Avatar are similar as they are both sci-fi movies with one major difference, the budget. Avatar is obviously the film with the better quality and has more planning behind it that district 9 but does that mean that it is really the better movie? District 9 features Wikus Van De Merwe, a bureaucrat in charge of facilitating the relocation program so that the local government can steal the technology from the aliens, referred to as "prawns"

  • The Allegory Of The Cave And The Matrix

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    considered to be the standards by which we measure our knowledge of reality. Each reading has similarities with one another. In Plato’s “The Allegory of the Cave”, Descartes “Meditation I of the things of which we may doubt” and in the movie “The Matrix” the authors are asking the question, “Is this