Metabolic pathway

Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the United States and in many other nations of the world (R. Siegel, Miller, & Jemal, 2015). It is characterized by uncontrolled cell growth and invasion of tissues in various parts of our body such as lung, breast, and colon. The American Cancer Society estimates diagnosis of 1,685,210 new cancer cases and 595,690 cancer related deaths in the US in 2016 (R. L. Siegel, Miller, & Jemal, 2016). Breast cancer is identified as a diverse disease in…

Breathing air in and out is the first step to the respiration process. Respiration is a series of metabolic reactions and processes that take place within the cells of organisms. The organisms store biochemical energy within adenosine triphosphate (ATP) molecules. For the process to being, we must first draw air into our lungs. The lungs muscles contract and expand the chest cavity, causing a negative or hypotonic pressure within the pleural cavity. The hypotonic pressure then forces the lungs…

Active PYY binds to receptors on the NPY neural pathway and inhibits the release of neurotransmitters, which promotes increased appetite (A, p 8). Post-prandial and total PYY levels increase post-procedure (post prandial p<0.05). Protein provides the greatest increase in satiety when compared to carbohydrates…

to metal ions. Menadione (MD) readily undergoes a redox cycle in hepatocytes because they have high metabolic activity. When MD was present…

Diabetes mellitus is a chronic metabolic disorder that affects millions of people in the United States. There are two types of diabetes, and type 2 is the most prevalent type at 90% of all cases. Different from type 1 diabetes, which is a complete need for insulin replacement, type 2 diabetes is caused by a resistance to insulin made by the pancreas as well as a deficiency in insulin. This resistance and deficiency is usually caused by lifestyle risk factors including body weight, diet, and…

A pesticide is any substance or mixture of substances designed to prevent, destroy, or control pests. The use of pesticides has been dated back to the beginning of agriculture, which was about 10,000 years ago in the Fertile Crescent. However, pesticides have not always been an organic compound. The first generation of pesticides was composed of inorganic substances, such as sulfur, mercury, lead, arsenic (calcium arsenate and lead arsenate), and ash. The modern era of pesticides was developed…

Introduction 1. Neuroplasticity in general Neuroplasticity is defined as changes in neuron circuits resulting from experience. The brain can be seen as a network of neurons as neurons are connected by thousands of synapses. Our brains make and break the connections between neurons in response to outside stimulation and this action gives us unlimited potential to change both structurally and functionally. For example, the size of the structure in our brains might change because of some outside…

The first receptor I will be doing is the Somatostatin receptor there is so much behind this receptor. Somatostatin (SST), otherwise called somatotropin discharge restraining variable (SRIF), is a hypothalamic hormone, a pancreatic hormone, and a focal and fringe neurotransmitter. Somatostatin has a wide conveyance all through the focal sensory system (CNS) and also in fringe tissues, for instance in the pituitary, pancreas and stomach. The different activities of somatostatin are intervened by…

monitored during this time to ensure harmful effects do not occur. OBJECTIVE #7 – Strategies for addressing potential pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic drug-drug interactions in professional practice • It is important to always be aware of metabolic pathways that medications follow throughout the body to help prevent drug interactions from occurring (Delafuente, 2003, p. 141). • The use of technology at the healthcare setting with electronic records, hand held devices, and easily…

the Borrelia burgdorferi is its ability to travel easily through its host’s fluids and tissues by using their highly adaptive flagella (2). The flagella in most spirochetes is found in the periplasm between the diderm membranes. It has a similar metabolic genome to most parasites,…