Posted on 03/27/2008 2:59:29 PM PDT by blam
I wish I had started my studies of cellular biology twenty years ago...
Oh well...
But if I’m going to add one single word to the discussion, just one word, maybe the most important word some folks might ever hear, it’s this one:
Carnosine
I let my wallet be my guide.
When you get the report about good beer doing the same, give me a ping - after the games tonight, of course.
Just finishing my first bottle right now. If they're wrong, I'm in no condition to care...........
I just drink the entire bottle; it is glass.....
The trick is, getting the cancer to hoist a few.
I think that is Cell Death....
From Wikipedia:
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Apoptosis (/̩æ.pəpˈto.səs/[1]) is a form of programmed cell death in multicellular organisms. It is one of the main types of programmed cell death (PCD) and involves a series of biochemical events leading to a characteristic cell morphology and death, in more specific terms, a series of biochemical events that lead to a variety of morphological changes, including blebbing, changes to the cell membrane such as loss of membrane asymmetry and attachment, cell shrinkage, nuclear fragmentation, chromatin condensation, and chromosomal DNA fragmentation (1-4). Processes of disposal of cellular debris whose results do not damage the organism differentiate apoptosis from necrosis.
In contrast to necrosis, which is a form of traumatic cell death that results from acute cellular injury, apoptosis, in general, confers advantages during an organism's life cycle. For example, the differentiation of fingers and toes in a developing human embryo occurs because cells between the fingers apoptose; the result is that the digits are separate. Between 50 billion and 70 billion cells die each day due to apoptosis in the average human adult. For an average child between the ages of 8 and 14, approximately 20 billion to 30 billion cells die a day. In a year, this amounts to the proliferation and subsequent destruction of a mass of cells equal to an individual's body weight.
Research on apoptosis has increased substantially since the early 1990s. In addition to its importance as a biological phenomenon, defective apoptotic processes have been implicated in an extensive variety of diseases. Excessive apoptosis causes hypotrophy, such as in ischemic damage, whereas an insufficient amount results in uncontrolled cell proliferation, such as cancer.
thanks, bfl
Just think, if Billy Carter had been a wino instead of a beer-drinker, he’d be alive today.
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