Apr 22, 2014 · What feature of rabies pathophysiology causes hydrophobia? Why is hydrophobia unique to this one particular type of viral infection?

Hydrophobia is mostly attributed to rabies, most of the sources refer rabies as hydrophobia. Technically Hydrophobia is the intense fear of water.

May 7, 2017 · This is due to presence of a hydrophobic chemical called as cutin present at the the aerial surfaces of plants. Cutin is one of two waxy polymers that are the main components of …

Hydrophobicity means aversion to water which results because of increase in entropy of the system due to the water-"solute" interaction. As already pointed out in by inf3rno, polarity of a …

Jul 28, 2015 · Why are nitrogenous bases of DNA hydrophobic if they can hydrogen bond? Is it that they are only relatively hydrophobic? This forum explains it but does not give an example …

Your question is rooted in a misundertsanding of the hydrophobic effect. Hydrophillic and hydrophobic molecules do not repel but, rather, attract one another through van der Waals …

The hydrophobia symptom is most likely a bi-product of the effects the virus has on the brain and not an evolutionarily derived strategy to create an appropriate environment to reproduce in.

May 29, 2015 · We should first understand what happens when a substance dissolves. During dissolution water interacts with the solute molecule; if the strength of interaction between the …

Nov 25, 2018 · This slide states that the second helix works to stablize the configuration of the two helixes via hydrophobic interactions. What exactly is this hydrophobic interaction? In other …

Rabies, for example, is a very deadly disease with a fatality rate of 90%. One of the terrible symptoms of this disease is Hydrophobia (fear of water). I can surely understand the fact that …