My Webinar on Women Urinary Incontinence. For those who are suffering from urinary incontinence and need to understand it better, the webinar tries to explain what it is, why it happens and how can it be treated. As aging occurs, women go through changes in their appearance. Most obviously is in the face. But aside from the face and facial features, our body goes through changes as well in it shape as well as function. From babyhood to girlhood to young lady then a woman and middle age and elderly lady, these changes is affected due to physical changes as well as hormonal changes. Some changes are obvious like skin laxity, white hair and weight gain, while others are subtle and barely felt or seen until it begins to affect our routine and lifestyle. One of them is urinary incontinence. So WHAT i
What is Cytokines? The term "cytokine" is derived from a combination of two Greek words - "cyto" meaning cell and "kinos" meaning movement. Cytokines are cell signalling molecules that aid cell to cell communication in immune responses and stimulate the movement of cells towards sites of inflammation, infection and trauma. They are released mainly to stimulate an immune response when the cells detect any foreign substances in the blood. Cytokines essentially consists of proteins, peptides, and glycoproteins. They are primarily released by immune system cells in order to initiate cell-to-cell interaction in order to generate an immune response. For instance when white cells come into contact with pathogens(bacteria, viruses) they immediately release cytokines, which in turn communicate and activate other white blood cells to attavk the foreign invader. This is the natural way our immune response of alerting and recruiting more