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The Nervous System: Viral Infections And Neuroinflammation The Central Nervous System (CNS) while being the most intricate is the most delicate system in the animal body. The brain has an incredibly extensive blood supply. The vertebral and carotid arteries and the related veins are important vessels that supply and drain blood in the brain. As the brain is a very delicate complex system that requires only essential substances, there exists a boundary that prevents the diffusion of assorted substances into the brain. These substances include pathogens, toxins and even the immune system. In the current COVID-19 pandemic, neurologists have identified multiple cases of cerebrospinal neuropathy which result from viral infection causing coagulopathy, neuromuscular, cognitive and psychiatric disorders. These conditions are also observed for several other viruses with invasive capabilities into the brain.  This article would discuss biochemical processes regulating the neural environment, inf

Our Vegetables Our Drugs Episode 11 The tropics are areas located around the equator defined by warmer climates with an average temperature of about 27°C. These regions receive a substantial amount of solar radiation and rainfall compared to others.  In the tropics, there exists various biomes such as Deserts, Savannahs and Tropical rainforests. Tropical rainforests are forests that consists of dense evergreen and broadleaf trees. They have a high level of rainfall and are always wet for most of the year. They could be very large (>1 million Km²) and are arguably the most important ecosystem on Earth. Examples of rainforests include the Amazon rainforests in South America (Brazil, Columbia, Peru, Bolivia,e.t.c), the Congo rainforests (Gabon, Central African Republic, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC, Zaire), Uganda, e.t.c), Indonesian rainforests (Sumatran, Borneo), Southern Asian rainforests (Thailand, Malaysia, e.t.c), and New Guinea rainforests (Papua New Guinea, Indo