Electron Transport Chains
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...
Tag Archives: Redox
8 Detox Water Recipes to Flush Your Liver
Apple Cinnamon Detox Water (as seen on Dr. Oz) This is also referred to as the Zero Calorie detox water because it contains nearly zero...
Redox homeostasis
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....
Acute Activation of Oxidative Pentose Phosphate Pathway as First-Line Response to Oxidative Stress in Human Skin Cells
Highlights •Oxidants induce rerouting of glucose flux into oxidative PPP within seconds •Initial rerouting is independent of GADPH or PKM2 inhibition •Multiple cycling of carbon...
ROS removal by the ascorbate-glutathione-NADPH system
The Collins English dictionary defines the word “hub” as either the central part of a wheel or a focal point. Within this concept, a redox...
Alcohol, free radicals and antioxidants.
Antioxidants in alcoholic beverages, especially polyphenolic compounds in red wine, have been proposed as an important contributory factor to the protective effect of regular alcohol...