Psoriasis Informative Speech

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Diseases are all around the world, there are about 30,000 different diseases and I’m here to inform you about one. Psoriasis. The disease Psoriasis isn’t a deadly disease, but like most you still have to watch for symptoms and other problems with it. Psoriasis is common between ages 15 and 30 years of age. About 7.5 million people are affected by Psoriasis, in the United States.

Psoriasis isn’t contagious, because it's primarily an autoimmune disease it can’t spread from one person to another. Psoriasis can however spread throughout the body. The cause of Psoriasis is when cells come to the skin’s surface and then they die off. The dead cells leave red blotches with little white scales. Some experts believe that it's many different things …show more content…

In 2015, Ulrich Von Andrian led a team of scientists to try and figure out what the nervous system had to do with Psoriasis. For their research they focused on a portion of “pain-sensing neurons” that was overflowing in the skin, which brought up the sensations of uncomfortable heat, and fiery pain. Using a mouse as their model, they found that the neurons were promoting the Psoriasis and if they could remove them then it could help relieve the symptoms of Psoriasis. After a while they gave the mice “imiquimod”, which is known to trigger Psoriasis-like conditions, and the mice were less responsive than when they had the neurons in their body. Bogi Andersen also had a team at the University of California studying a mechanism the body uses to repair the skin, where Psoriasis hit. The team focused on a protein called “GRHL3”. It’s a gene accelerator which is involved in skin development and the repair of the outer layer of skin. They tested the protein and found out that the mice with GRHL3 in their systems kept showing signs of irritation. In further detail, more and more experiments showed that the GRHL3 puts an end to the origination to of some inflammatory molecules. That indicating, that the protein does in fact work and it simmers down the irritation that affects the psoriatic breakout. The results concluded that GRHL3 could be an effective pathway for treating

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