During the electron transport system/chain, high energy elec…
During the electron transport system/chain, high energy electrons are transferred to cytochromes in the mitochondria from vitamin-derived nucleotide-based carriers produced during glycolysis and citric acid cycle. The key step in ATP production by oxidative phosphorylation here involves:
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You just got a blood report back from the hospital pathologist for your patient. They have elevated levels of liver-derived enzymes in their blood. This has nothing to do with liver damage. It has to do purely with increased gene expression of that enzyme.
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Last up, a PSA (public service announcement)-based True or False question: Diseases of almost every organ system are affected by climate change, not just the respiratory system. Even pandemics like the most recent one have been linked to changes in viral and animal ecology in response to a pathologically changing climate. To this aim, the New England Journal of Medicine recently published an unprecedented editorial “call for emergency action” to limit global temperature increases, restore biodiversity and protect human health. In summary, the panel of expert authors stated that a rapidly warming climate is “the single greatest threat” to global public health, urging world leaders to cut heat trapping emissions, otherwise, “there will be catastrophic harm to human health that may be impossible to reverse”.
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