Redox balance

Clausius-Clapeyron, 230,303-305 Gibbs-Helmholtz, 459,461 Henderson-Hasselbalch, 79-80 mass relation, 62-63 Nemst, 493-494 net ionic, 79-80 nonmetals, 575q nuclear, 513,530-531q Planck s, 135 redox, balancing, 90-92 Schrodinger, 140 thermochemical, 204... 

Chapter 16 considers a broad but closely related set of chemical processes that control the acid-base and oxidation-reduction (or redox) balances of the planet. It will be seen that both sets of processes depend greatly on... 

This type of in vitro study is relevant because it mimics likely physiological conditions. Red cells contain 1-2 mM GSH so the formation of glutathione complexes would be a likely consequence when auranofin metabolites enter red cells [112, 113]. Compared with typical in vivo gold concentrations of 10-15 pM observed in patients, the Ki values for the four gold complexes are less than anticipated. This indicates that chrysotherapy can greatly depress GSH-Pxase activity in vivo so the normal cellular redox balance would be displaced, favoring the accumulation of H2O2 and possibly GSH [3, 79, 114]. 

The glutathione redox system is an essential player in controlling the redox state within the cell, the glutathione/glutathione reductase pathway attempts to keep a stable cellular redox balance... 

Program DGC06 solves the time-dependent simulation of the deep sea redox balance in linearized form by the reverse Euler method using Gaussian elimination and back substitution. 

Program DGC08 solves redox balance of the deep sea with a linearly increasing PROD and automatic linearization of the equations nrow =2 the number of equations and unknowns... 

In addition to the well-known iron effects on peroxidative processes, there are also other mechanisms of iron-initiated free radical damage, one of them, the effect of iron ions on calcium metabolism. It has been shown that an increase in free cytosolic calcium may affect cellular redox balance. Stoyanovsky and Cederbaum [174] showed that in the presence of NADPH or ascorbic acid iron ions induced calcium release from liver microsomes. Calcium release occurred only under aerobic conditions and was inhibited by antioxidants Trolox C, glutathione, and ascorbate. It was suggested that the activation of calcium releasing channels by the redox cycling of iron ions may be an important factor in the stimulation of various hepatic disorders in humans with iron overload. 

The third oxide used for physical decolorizing is neodymium oxide. Its absorption curve closely compliments an average mixture of ferrous and ferric oxides especially with the strong absorption band at 589 nm. Neodymium oxide is also stable against any state of oxidation change in the furnace. Neodymium is exceptionally good as a decolorizer for potassium silicate and lead glasses. If the redox balance is not quite correct for the... 

All parasitic flatworms capable of anaerobic metabolism favour malate as the primary mitochondrial substrate and the oxidative decarboxylations of first malate and then pyruvate generate intramitochondrial reducing power in the form of NADH (Fig. 20.1). In contrast, the pathways used to reoxidize intramitochondrial NADH are quite diverse and depend on the stage or species of parasite under examination, but in all cases, redox balance is maintained and electron-transport associated ATP is generated by the NADH-reduction of fumarate to succinate. In the cestode, hi. diminuta, succinate and acetate are the major end products of anaerobic malate dismutation and are excreted in the predicted 2 1 ratio. In the trematode F. hepatica, succinate is then further decarboxylated to propionate with an additional substrate level phosphorylation coupled to the decarboxylation of methylmalonyl CoA. F. hepatica forms primarily propionate and acetate as end products, again in a ratio of 2 1 to maintain redox balance. 

Coenzyme A reductase Oxidative stress and redox balance 82... 

Besides the use of amino acids as a nitrogen source, flor yeast may use these compounds to balance the oxidation-reduction potential under conditions of restricted oxygen availability. This can be achieved by releasing amino acids into the medium to restore the intracellular redox balance by oxidation of excess NADH (Mauricio et ah, 2001a,b Moreno-Arribas and Polo, 2005 Valero et ah, 2003). 

Latham, P., Lund, E.K., Brown, J.C., and Johnson, I.T., Effects of cellular redox balance on induction of apoptosis by eicosapentaenoic acid in HT29 colorectal adenocarcinoma cells and rat colon in vivo, Gut, 49, 97, 2001. 

Both competing reductions consume the cofactor nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH) and thereby interfere with the redox balance of the cell and feedback on glycolysis where NADH is regenerated on the one hand, while on the other hand NAD+ is required to keep the glycolytic pathway running. The nonlinear dynamical model combines the network of glycolysis and the additional pathways of the xenobiotics to predict the asymmetric yield (enantiomeric excess, ee) of L-versus D-carbinol for different environmental conditions (Fig. 3.4). Here, the enantiomeric excess of fluxes vy and i>d is defined as... 

Fig. 5.4. Two types of energy metabolism in cestodes. (a) Type 1 homolactate fermentation, (b) Type 2 Malate dismutation. Reaction 3 involves a carboxylation step decarboxylation occurs at 6, 7 and 10. Reducing equivalents are generated at reactions 6 and 7 one reducing equivalent is used at reaction 9. Thus, when the mitochondrial compartment is in redox balance and malate is the sole substrate, twice as much propionate as acetate is produced. Key 1, pyruvate kinase 2, lactate dehydrogenase 3, phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase 4, malate dehydrogenase 5, mitochondrial membrane 6 malic enzyme 7, pyruvate dehydrogenase complex 8, fumarase 9, fumarate reductase 10, succinate decarboxylase complex. indicates reactions at which ATP is synthesised from ADP cyt, cytosol mit, mitochondrion. (After Bryant Flockhart, 1986.)...

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