Cash is needed not only for paying everyday expenditure but lacking cash, we can not purchase any fixed assets also. Excellent planning of cash will make us easy to hold our expenditures and proper spending. The plan which helps us to use cash systematic way is called cash budget.
There are several harmful consequences for your arteries and heart because high blood pressure, also called hypertension, places a higher workload on them. It addition, high blood pressure can damage other organs. How does high blood pressure hurt the arteries? HBP damages the walls of the…
Is pulmonary hypertension different than high blood pressure? The human body has two circulation systems: Systemic (delivering oxygen throughout the body) Pulmonary (receiving oxygen from the lungs) Typically “blood pressure,” “high blood pressure” and “hypertension” refer to…
To know if you have high or low blood pressure, you need to know what a healthy blood pressure level is. Optimal blood pressure is less than 120/80 mm Hg (systolic pressure is 120 AND diastolic pressure is less than 80).Within certain limits, the lower your blood pressure reading…
4. Catabolism of sugars other than glucose 4.3 Lactose and galactose The Leloir pathway for galactose utilization Mechanism of UDP-galactose epimerase Lactose intolerance Galactosemia Lactose, a disaccharide of glucose and galactose, is the major carbohydrate contained in milk. Like maltose and sucrose, it is…
5. Pyruvate dehydrogenase and the citric acid cycle 5.4 The citric acid cycle The overall reaction of the TCA cycle: does it add up? The citrate synthase reaction Reactions in the TCA: from citrate to oxaloacetate ?-Ketoglutarate dehydrogenase resembles PDH Almost all carbon that accrues…
2. Refresher 2.3 Energetics of enzyme-catalyzed reactions A simile: the Walchensee–Kochelsee hydroelectric power system Analogies in the simile Discrepancies in the simile With each enzymatic reaction, as with any other chemical reaction, energy comes in with these two questions: will the reaction proceed at…
6. The respiratory chain 6.9 Auxiliary shuttles for the mitochondrial reoxidation of cytosolic NADH A hypothetical malate-oxaloacetate shuttle The malate-aspartate shuttle The glycerophosphate shuttle In slide 3.4.1, it was mentioned that, under aerobic conditions, the NAD+ converted to NADH in the cytosol by glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase…