1answer.
Ask question
Login Signup
Ask question
All categories
  • English
  • Mathematics
  • Social Studies
  • Business
  • History
  • Health
  • Geography
  • Biology
  • Physics
  • Chemistry
  • Computers and Technology
  • Arts
  • World Languages
  • Spanish
  • French
  • German
  • Advanced Placement (AP)
  • SAT
  • Medicine
  • Law
  • Engineering
Stels [109]
4 years ago
15

A client with suspected myasthenia gravis is to undergo a test with edrophonium. the client asks if edrophonium can be used to t

reat myasthenia gravis. what is the nurse's best response? the short half-life of edrophonium makes it impractical for long-term use with repeated edrophonium use, immunosuppression may occur dry mouth and abdominal cramps may be intolerable adverse effects it isn't available in an oral form
Biology
1 answer:
olga nikolaevna [1]4 years ago
6 0

The correct answer is: the short half-life of edrophonium makes it impractical for long-term.

Edrophonium is used for the diagnostic of myasthenia gravis. In patient with myasthenia gravis, the body produces autoantibodies which inhibit nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in the neuromuscular junction. Edrophonium, on the other hand, is acetylcholinesterase inhibitor which blocks the effect of acetylcholinesterase enzymes (AcH stays in synaptic cleft).

Substitution for the edrophonium is pyridostigmine which is also acetylcholinesterase inhibitor but with long-term maintenance.


You might be interested in
Plants in hot environments like deserts open their stomata at night because they are adapted to
stepan [7]

Answer:

To reduce water loss.

Explanation:

Keeping the stomata closed during the day, helps reduce water loss when dry, hot wind blows across it.

3 0
2 years ago
What is the function of the cholesterol molecules in a cell membrane? A. They make it thicker. B. They make it porous. C. They m
insens350 [35]
Its in a way both C and D as at cholesterol acts as a fluidity buffer that at high temps. the cholesterol makes the membrane less flexible and at lower temps. makes the membrane more fluid

Sorry Hope that helps though 
8 0
3 years ago
A group of scientists is studying the fossils of three different hominids. They find that the DNA of the first hominid is more s
oksano4ka [1.4K]
"The first and second hominids were able to mate and produce offspring, but the first and third hominids could not." <span>Although that might be the case, it might also not. "More similar" needn't be 'similar enough' (disregarding the fact that all homonid specimens involved could happen to share the same sex). </span>

<span>"The first and second hominids shared the same geographic location, while the third was isolated." </span>

<span>That information would be revealed by the geographic location they came from. </span>

<span>"The first and second hominids most likely became extinct before the third hominid species." </span>

<span>Perhaps or perhaps not. As ancestral lineages can survive for longer than descendant lineages, it needn't apply. Still, I suppose the non-existent law of averages provides some sort of justification for the use of "Most likely". </span>

<span>"The first and second hominids have a more recent common ancestor than the first and third hominids." </span>

<span>Assuming these are all in the same neat lineage, then the most recent common ancestor of the first and second is also the most recent common ancestor of the first and the third.</span>
6 0
3 years ago
Read 2 more answers
How much of the protein consumed by humans around the world is fish?
notsponge [240]

The correct answer is: about 20 percent.

Fish is one of the major sources of animal protein around the world. This is especially case for the people who live on the coast.  

Other source of the animal protein is red meat. About 70 percent comes from animals such as cows, goats, sheep, buffalo, deer.

When it comes to non-meat protein food, eggs and dairy products provide good energy source.


3 0
3 years ago
Read 2 more answers
Joyce and Linda are identical twins who are 50 years old and enjoy exercising daily. Joyce avoids eating any dairy or animal pro
solniwko [45]

Answer:

Linda has a higher level of "bad" cholesterol than Joyce.

Explanation:

bad cholesterol is in lots of fatty and dairy food such as meat,in this case pork, and butter.

5 0
3 years ago
Read 2 more answers
Other questions:
  • A plan that balance s the needs of the present with the needs of the future
    6·1 answer
  • Which of the following provides evidence that the continents were once connected
    10·2 answers
  • What Mendel''s principle of dominance suggests a gene will always be masked by the presence of a gene?
    7·1 answer
  • Describing Orion
    7·2 answers
  • In which type of rock would you be most likely to find layers? colored volcanic sedimentary igneous C?
    5·1 answer
  • What is genetic trespass?
    10·1 answer
  • The mutation in which a chromosome carries repetitive sets for a gene is called a
    14·1 answer
  • Which is a density-independent factor????
    7·1 answer
  • Here :&gt; is it to much makup or no?
    7·2 answers
  • • bahrami, m. et al. deep feature extraction of single-cell transcriptomes by generative adversarial network. bioinformatics (ox
    10·1 answer
Add answer
Login
Not registered? Fast signup
Signup
Login Signup
Ask question!