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It is a crucial step in cellular energy metabolism. In this process, electrons are transferred from one carrier to another through a series of oxidation-reduction reactions and are ultimately passed to oxygen to form water. The energy released by this electron transfer process is used to transfer the phosphate group to ADP (adenosine ...
Thus, it is glycolysis and OXPHOS that work together to maintain cellular energy homeostasis. The energy metabolism of normal cells is characterized by OXPHOS using glucose in the mitochondria, which is both economical and efficient. ...
AMPK (Adenosine 5'-monophosphate (AMP)-activated protein kinase), as an important kinase regulating energy homeostasis, is one of the central regulators of eukaryotic cell and organism metabolism. ...
Their latest research has taken them across Europe investigating how temperature alters the metabolic rates of salmonid fish like Brown Trout and Atlantic Salmon.Metabolic rate refers to an organism’s energy expenditure. While many factors like activity levels or stress can impact metabolic rate, it scales consistently with body size and ...
Other effects of these medications include increasing diuresis and natriuresis, lowering blood pressure, stimulating erythropoiesis, improving cardiac energy metabolism, reducing inflammation, inhibiting the sympathetic nervous system, preventing cardiac remodeling, preventing ischemia-reperfusion injury, inhibiting the Na+/H+ exchanger, reducing hyperuricemia, ...
They govern many catalytic processes such as metabolism, nutrition, and energy conversion of organisms. Most of the reactions closely related to life processes are enzyme-catalyzed reactions. These properties of the enzyme enable the intricate process of material metabolism in the cell to proceed in an orderly manner, and to adapt material ...
It revealed a novel mechanism by which the deubiquitinosomal system senses metabolic signals such as glucose and fatty acids and regulates energy metabolism. ...
In addition, it also has the effect of improving atherosclerosis, myocardial energy metabolism and anti-fibrosis. 3. Antihypertensive effect Clinical data show that Canagliflozin can reduce systolic blood pressure to varying degrees, and the reduction is significantly dose-dependent. ...
Mitochondria are important organelles of eukaryotic cells and play a key role in the regulation of cellular energy metabolism, biosynthesis and cell death (including apoptosis and programmed cell necrosis). ...
Although the influence of exercise on energy metabolism is well recognized, there is still a lack of study on how exercise timing affects metabolic state, and we are still unaware of the similarities and differences between different exercise time periods. ...
Scientists have determined how a protein in the brain uses information about the body's energy balance to regulate children's growth rate and the onset of puberty. The study focuses on the melanocortin 3 receptor (MC3R), a member of the protein family, which has long been thought to play an important role in metabolism and energy balance. ...
More than just components of cell membranes and energy storage substances, lipids can perform a variety of important biological functions in life activities. ...
The gut microbiota, which includes Akkermansia muciniphila, is known to modulate energy metabolism, glucose tolerance, immune system maturation and function in humans1,2,3,4. Although A. muciniphila is correlated with metabolic diseases and its beneficial causal effects were reported on host metabolism5,6,7,8, the molecular mechanisms involved ...
Abstract Gut microbiota play an important role in immune responses and energy metabolism. In this study, we evaluated whether administration of Lactobacillus fermentum (L. fermentum) KBL375 isolated from healthy Korean feces improves the atopic dermatitis using the house dust mite (Dermatophagoides farinae)-induced atopic dermatitis (AD) mouse model. ...
On March 11, 2019, scientists at the University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley) published a study on nature microbiology on the gut anatomical properties of the passalid beetle that helps it transform decaying wood into energy-rich materials. Passalid beetles’ digestive tracts contain microbes that provide a roadmap for the production of affordable, nature-derived ...
Scientists have found that endocannabinoids and cannabinoid receptors are involved in a wide array of bodily functions, including helping to control brain, nerve memory, pain, energy metabolism, heart function, the immune system and even reproduction. ...
Abstract Class 1 plant hemoglobins (phytoglobins) are upregulated during low-oxygen stress and participate in metabolism and cell signaling via modulation of the levels of nitric oxide (NO). We studied the effects of overexpression and knockdown of the class 1 phytoglobin gene in barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) under low-oxygen stress. The overexpression of phytoglobin reduced the amount of NO ...
Rhodospirillum rubrum has the potential for biomass resource recycling combined with sewage purification. However, low biomass production and yield restricts the potential for sewage purification. This research investigated the improvement of biomass production, yield and organics reduction by Mg2+ in R. rubrum wastewater treatment. Results showed that with optimal dosage (120 mg/L), ...
We studied the impacts of Cd on carbohydrate as well as on the protein metabolism, metallothionein (MT), glutathione (GSH) synthesis, energy‐related parameters and mRNA expression of genes involved in energy metabolism. ...
The model shows that the microorganisms used their energy metabolism the most efficiently in the case of the guaranteed presence of the dissolved oxygen, e.g., the ultimate acceptor of the electrons in the electron transport chain. ...