new enzyme formed is called dopamine. Dopamine is then hydroxylated‚ and turns into norepinephrine. Lastly‚ norepinephrine is methylated to form epinephrine. Through the process of chemical synthesis epinephrine can be produced by the reaction of catechol and chloroacetyl chloride. This then reacts with methylamine. This is reduced to a hydroxylic compound. The result of this is epinephrine. Using tartaric acid‚ epinephrine can be separated. I chose to research epinephrine because of the difference
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Introduction: With the execution of this experiment‚ we began to go deeper into the Cell and Molecular Biology course. The main focus of the experiment would be how the Restriction Endonucleases cleave the strands of DNA. For this experiment‚ pBR322 was the specimen to use. Restriction Endonucleases work by cleaving the sugar phosphate backbone of specific DNA sites. Restriction enzymes that have been isolated from bacteria have a defensive role. This idea is illustrated when an attacking foreign
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Drug Abuse inside the Mind and Body Brittney Rojo COMM/156 17 February‚ 2013 Professor Nicholas Delzotto Since 1980‚ the number of drug addictions resulting in death has risen 540 percent. (Florida Institute of Technology Counseling and Psychological Services‚ n.d.). Drug abuse is a process that progresses through patterns of repetitive behavior through rewarding feelings that come with substance use. Often unintentional‚ users see drug experience as a recreational crutch. Although
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Neurotransmitters are brain chemicals that transmit information throughout our brain and body. They transmit nerve signals electrically and chemically between neurons. Neurotransmitters can affect mood‚ sleep‚ concentration and weight. The two kinds of neurotransmitters are: inhibitory and excitatory which‚ respectively‚ calm and stimulate the brain. Dopamine is an inhibitory neurotransmitter so when dopamine reaches the receptor sites‚ it blocks the neuron from firing. Dopamine is produced in multiple
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Guava is a small tropical tree that grows up to 35 feet tall; it is widely grown for its fruit in tropics. It is a member of the Myrtaceae family‚ with about 133 genera and more than 3‚800 species. The leaves and bark of P. guajava tree have a long history of medicinal uses that are still employed today (Nwinyi et al.‚ 2008). In the view of the immense medicinal importance of P. guajava plant evidenced in the various studies mentioned above and also corroborated in a recent review article by Kamath
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Effects of Secondhand Smoke on Children BY MARCY BUREAU Introduction My name is Marcy Bureau. I chose this topic because I had a lot of exposure to secondhand smoke growing up as a child. It’s a sensitive topic for me because I now have a lot of health issues as a 22 year old adult. I have asthma and I have a very weak immune system. What is secondhand smoke? Secondhand smoke is also known as Environmental Tobacco Smoke‚ or ETS. It’s defined as a combination of the smoke that comes
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Clays are one of the important natural materials‚ which have been examined for catalytic applications. Clays are characterized by a layered structure and hence they are slippery when wet. They are broadly classified as cationic or smectite type (having layer lattice structure in which two-dimensional oxyanions are separated by layers of hydrated cations) and anionic or brucite type (in which the charge on the layer and the gallery ion is reversed complimentary to smectite type). Anionic clays are
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Name: Professor`s name: Course number: Date: Metabolic Pathways of Drugs The principal site for drug metabolism in the human body is the liver organ. The process of metabolism usually inactivates drugs though some drug metabolites are pharmacologically in active status. Inactive substance which has a metabolite that is active is referred to as a prodrug. Drugs are metabolized
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BIOREMEDIATION INTRODUCTION:- The process of bioremediation was reportedly devised by George M Robinson in the 1960 during experimentation with dirty jars and the introduction of microbes this was however not applied until the 1972 clean out of the fuel holding tanks on the RMS queen mary. Science 1972 bioremediation has become greater developed as a means of cleaning up spills of gasoline diesel ‚ heavy metals and other easily degraded petroleum products (National Research Council 1993). Bioremediation
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ABSTRACT: Medicinal plants are potential sources of new drugs to improve the treatment of diseases whose treatment is associated to anti-oxidative agents. In the current study‚ we carried out a comparative analysis of the antioxidant activities of extracts of the selected leaves of 6 common medicinal plants. Total Ascorbic Acid Content‚ Total Carotenoid Content‚ Antioxidant potential using FRAP assay and Total Phenol Content was quantitatively estimated from leaves of Rauvolfia serpentina‚ Cymbopogon
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