Metabolism processes brain

MRS research is increasingly used to indicate the regions of brain affected in addiction/alcoholism 943 MRS can provide a snapshot into the metabolic processes of brain tumors 944... 

It is becoming increasingly evident that repeated use of Ecstasy actually damages the brain. Scientists believe that Ecstasy interferes with cellular and metabolic processes,... 

Other infectious diseases, such as pneumonia, typhoid fever, and erysipelas, may cause delirium, often associated with high fever. The temperature rise (fever) itself alters brain metabolism by affecting different enzyme systems differently. In addition toxic substances produced by infective agents may directly affect metabolic processes. 

About scaritoxin, the following results were reported. This toxin was found to depress the oxidative metabolic process in the rat brain (20) and to have a depolarizing action on excitable membranes (38). In the guinea-pig atria, scaritoxin caused a marked potentiation of the acetylcholine negative inotropic and chronotropic effects (39). In rat atria, we observed biphasic inotropic and chronotropic effects similar to those of ciguatoxin. Negative inotropic and chronotropic effects were antagonized by atropine. 

MRS of brain detects several compounds that are markers of important metabolic processes. 

In anticipatory response to these vital signals denoting energy and information availability to mammals, the brain has designed a clock for itself. Tinkered up from the biochemical rhythmicity of metabolic processes that change direction as temperature rises and falls, the mammalian circadian clock has come to be independent of temperature and it has been sequestered in two small nuclei sitting in the hypothalamus just above the optic chiasm. Unbeknownst to us, this clock controls the ebb... 

V8. Vrba, R., On the participation of the glutamic acid-glutamine system in the metabolic processes in rat brain during physical exercise. J. Neurochetn. 1, 12 (1956). 

Drug metabolism can occur in all tissues and most biological fluids. However, the widest range of metabolic reactions occurs in the liver. A more substrate-selective range of metabolic processes takes place in the kidney, lungs, brain, placenta and other tissues. 

When food intake decreases, the utilization of fat and protein reserves in the body enables various essential metabolic processes to continue during the nutritional inadequacy. In the early stage of fasting or starvation, glucose requirements of the brain and nervous system are fulfilled by mobilization of glycogen in the liver. This short-term adaptation lasts only a day until glycogen stores are exhausted. Gluconeogenesis... 

The ethylene glycol and methyl alcohol (see below), which is also sometimes found in antifreeze, are poisonous because they are converted into more toxic products. Once inside the body, the ethylene glycol in the antifreeze is changed by metabolism into first one, and then several other chemicals. This requires the same enzyme that metabolizes the alcohol we consume in alcoholic drinks (ethyl alcohol). The ethylene glycol is converted into oxalic acid which is poisonous, and other poisonous products are also produced. Oxalic acid is also found in rhubarb leaves, which is what makes them poisonous. The result of these metabolic conversions is that the acidity of the blood increases (the pH decreases) and normal metabolic processes are inhibited. The oxalic acid formed can crystallize in the brain and the kidneys, causing damage. The oxalic acid also reacts with calcium and removes it from the body. The reduction of calcium... 

Vitamin B complex is the collective term for a number of water-soluble vitamins found particularly in dairy products, cereals and liver.Vitamin B (thiamine) is used by mouth for dietary supplement purposes and by injection in emergency treatment of Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome. Vitamin B2 (riboflavin) is a constituent of the coenzyme FAD (flavine adenine dinucleotide) and FMN (flavine mononucleotide) and is therefore important in cellular respiration. Vitamin Be (pyridoxine) is a coenzyme for decarboxylases and transamination, and is concerned with many metabolic processes. Overdose causes peripheral neuropathy. It may be used medically for vomiting and radiation sickness and for premenstrual tension. Pyridoxine has a negative interaction with the therapeutic use of levodopa in parkinsonism by enhancing levodopa decarboxylation to dopamine in the periphery, which does not then reach the brain. The antitubercular drug isoniazid interferes with pyridoxine, and causes a deficiency leading to peripheral neuritis that may need to be corrected with dietary supplements. Vitamin B ... 

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