Over 47.5 million people worldwide have Alzheimer’s disease or some other type of dementia, according to the World Health Organisation. Despite decades of research, the...
Mitochondrial ROS Production and Defense Estimates indicate that approximately 0.2–0.5% of the oxygen consumed by the mitochondrion is converted into ROS, a number that is...
Macrophages have been extensively implicated in the development of several tissues, as well as in homeostasis and cancer [85],[94]–[96]. They have been directly implicated in...
Cancer cells are notorious for their ability to divide uncontrollably and generate hordes of new tumor cells. Most of the fuel consumed by these rapidly...
Cells use cellular respiration to break down sugars and other materials into other chemical forms that cells can use as energy. The vast majority of...
If balance is truth, homeostasis is its biological expression. Students learn the importance of homeostatic regulation in the first few lectures of any physiology course....
Oxidative stress in living cells is defined as the imbalance between the oxidants generated by cellular respiration and metabolism, and the cell’s antioxidant defense system...