spontaneously oxidized to taurine. 2- in CNS: Biosynthesis of taurine in CNS occurs via four routes. 1- Cysteine sulfonic acid (CSA) Decarboxylase route: It is the most accepted route in the CNS. It includes cysteine‚ CSA‚ hypotaurine and taurine as a metabolic sequence. 2- Cystine dioxygenase route:
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countless lives. Well‚ that is true but‚ most things we are experimenting today‚ since we have came very far in the medicine department‚ can not be effectively tested on animals. Humans and animals are not much alike as well. Animals have different metabolic structures‚ and anatomy. Also‚ almost all drugs are re-tested on human subjects. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) states that 95% of drugs that were successfully tested on animals but failed in human tests because they were dangerous. The
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Not all music is beneficial to the brain and body‚ depending on what a person listens to it can negatively impact their brain. There have been numerous studies done on plants and animals such as rats to test the different genres of music on the brain‚ one done on rats showed that when the brains of one group who had been exposed to rock and heavy metal music had been dissected the neural networks and structures or their brains were twisted up compared to a group listening to classical
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Phobias and Addictions as Related to Classical and Operant Conditioning Learning can take place through a variety of methods; two of these methods are classical and operant. Classical and operant conditioning can contribute to a student’s success or failure; in addition‚ phobias and addictions can develop. “Learning is any enduring change in the way an organism responds based on its experience.” (Kowalski & Westen‚ 2011‚ p. 164). Classical conditioning has been shown to aid in the development
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other eco-cities. A baseline and two scenarios with different energy performance were created in the modeling software DesignBuilder to calculate the energy consumption for heating and cooling. It resulted in three levels of energy consumption were the baseline had an energy consumption for heating and cooling of 62 kWh/m2-year‚ first scenario had 57 kWh/m2-year and the second scenario had 35 kWh/m2-year. There is a significant difference in energy performance between baseline and scenario two and
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Francesca Mancini Prof. Nakamoto October 23‚ 2012 Final Assignment : Sugar-Sweetened Beverages The article “A Randomized Trial of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages and Adolescent Body Weight”(2012) aims at examining the causal relationship between the consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages and obesity among adolescents. The research for this article is a follow up of a previous pilot study that has been conducted on a period of six months involving normal weight‚ overweight‚ and obese adolescents
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Psychology Report The effect of caffeine on long-term memory Introduction: What is caffeine? Caffeine is one of the commonly consumed or most ingested stimulant or psychoactive substance in the world‚ known for it’s effect on vigilance and alertness level (A. Smith‚ 2002) or at least perceived to jolt our tired brains‚ when consumed in normal or moderate quantity. Caffeine is available to us from various sources like coffee‚ tea‚ cocoa‚ soft drinks and other such products. Caffeine is basically
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Enzyme Activators and Inhibitors Lucia House AP Biology‚ Block 4 Mr. Trice October 18‚ 2012 Introduction: Metabolism is the totality of all of an organism’s chemical reactions. Chemical reactions occur due to enzymes‚ a substance which acts as a catalyst in driving chemical reactions in order to produce a desired product (Campbell and Reece‚ 2002). A catalyst is usually a protein; however‚ some catalytic molecules counter this generalization. A discovery made in the early nineteen- nineties
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of Dicamba in humans‚ the U.S. EPA has not found any evidence regarding Dicamba disrupting the Endocrine system‚ and Dicamba is not likely to be a human carcinogen. Not as much data is available regarding Dicamba in aquatic species‚ but some baseline data exists. Immature coho salmon have a 24-hour LC50 (lethal concentration where 50% of the treated subjects die when
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The Toxic Trio Let’s face it‚ when a woman arrives at a nail salon‚ the first thing she thinks about is the color of polish she is choosing or how excited she is to pamper herself. The last thing on her mind are the toxins that are in the actual nail polish. Little does she know‚ there are plenty of chemical compounds that are in each nail polish bottle‚ three of which are very toxic. They are formaldehyde‚ toluene‚ and dibutyl pthlate (DBP)-also known as the "toxic trio." These three toxins are
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