{"id":8688,"date":"2023-04-18T07:48:20","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T02:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=8688"},"modified":"2025-03-29T04:30:32","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T23:00:32","slug":"nano-fluidic-drug-eluting-seed-device","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/nano-fluidic-drug-eluting-seed-device\/","title":{"rendered":"Nano Fluidic Drug-Eluting Seed Device"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Nano fluidic Drug-Eluting Seed device:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an implantable nanofluidic device invented to deliver <strong>CD40 monoclonal antibodies.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>This device is a viable approach to penetrating the pancreatic tumour in a minimally invasive and effective manner.<\/li>\n<li>The device <strong>consists of a stainless steel drug reservoir<\/strong> containing nanochannels, thus creating a membrane that allows for sustained diffusion when the drug is released.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What is Pancreas?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It is located behind the <strong>stomach in the upper left abdomen.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is surrounded by other organs including <strong>the small intestine, liver, and spleen.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It plays an essential role in converting the food we eat into <strong>fuel for the body&#8217;s cells<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The pancreas has <strong>two main functions:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Exocrine function:<\/strong> Pancreas contains exocrine glands that produce enzymes important to digestion.<\/li>\n<li>These enzymes include trypsin and chymotrypsin to digest proteins; amylase for the digestion of carbohydrates; and lipase to break down fats.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Endocrine function:<\/strong> The endocrine component of the pancreas consists of <strong>islet cells<\/strong> (islets of Langerhans) that create and release important <strong>hormones directly into the bloodstream.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Two of the main pancreatic hormones <strong>are insulin,<\/strong> which acts to lower blood sugar, and <strong>glucagon<\/strong>, which acts to raise blood sugar.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What are Hormones?<\/h3>\n<p>Hormones are chemical messengers that are produced by the endocrine glands and transported through the bloodstream to target cells in various organs and tissues throughout the body.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/news\/health\/an-implantable-device-smaller-than-a-rice-grain-can-shrink-pancreatic-tumours-88789\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>An implantable device, smaller than a rice grain, can shrink pancreatic tumours<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nano fluidic Drug-Eluting Seed device is implantable device invented to deliver CD40 monoclonal antibodies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8689,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8688","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}