TO UNDERSTAND LIFE, you must understand proteins. These molecular chains, each assembled from a menu of 20 types of chemical links calledamino acids, do biology’s heavy lifting.In the guise ofenzymes they catalyse the chemistry that keeps bodies running.Actin and myosin, the proteins of muscles...
Protein is made up of amino acids. These building blocks are vital for your body to carry out important functions.1 While your body can make some amino acids on its own, there are nine you can only get from food. These are called essential or indispensable amino acids. ...
However, too much sugar intake has been linked to obesity, diabetes, and can spike insulin levels, which often leads to a “crash-like” feeling after about an hour or so. OneRockstar energy drinkcan have63 grams of sugarwhich is the same amount intwo regular size Snickers candy bars! S...
Thioredoxin-interacting protein (TXNIP) is a 397 amino acid residue, belonging to the arrestin family of proteins. It has been reported to regulate HSC quiescence and mobilization after stress [154,155,156], and is likely to be involved in HSC function, but has not to our knowledge been ext...
She found the cause of migraine to be at the ionic level, associated with disruption of the electrolyte homeostasis, resulting from genetic mutations of insulin and glucose transporters, and voltage gated sodium and calcium channel mutations. Such mutations cause major shifts in a migraine brain, un...
NET histones facilitate the interaction between the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein subunit 2 and sialic acid on host cells, enhancing virus infectivity [32]. Although NET blockade might impair NET-mediated antimicrobial functions (see later), this finding suggests that NET targeting may also inhibit ...
to preserve glucose for vital tissues at the expense of somatic growth. Catecholamines suppress insulin secretion to promote glucose sparing for insulin-independent tissues (brain, nerves) over insulin-dependent tissues (skeletal muscle, liver, and adipose). Likewise, premature induction of hepatic gluco...
Insulin also has an effect on small vessel muscle tone, storage and release of (fat) triglycerides and cellular uptake of amino acids and electrolytes. Type 1 diabetes results when the β-cells are destroyed and no longer producing insulin resulting in high glucose levels in the blood. Patients...