Krebs cycle, mnemonics, steps, regulations
The Krebs cycle is a sequence of reactions in mitochondria that occurs in all aerobic organisms to release stored energy. Krebs cycle is also known ...
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THE COMPLEMENT SYSTEM: PATHWAYS, REGULATIONS
The term complement refers to a set of serum proteins that eliminate blood and tissue pathogens. The complement system exists in an inactive state in ...
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Tolerance and Autoimmunity: mechanism, treatment
TOLERANCE DEFINITION Tolerance is specific immunologic unresponsiveness. In other words, it is a condition when an immune response to a certain antigen or epitope does ...
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Mendelian law and his experiment
MENDELIAN LAW Mendelian laws of heredity did not come into the limelight until 1900 when three botanists—Hugo de Vries, Erich von Tschermak, and Carl Correns—began ...
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Immunoglobulins: structure and functions
ANTIBODIES Antibodies are globulin proteins (immunoglobulins) that will produce in response to antigens. Immunoglobulins are also known as antibodies. They are incredibly diverse and specific ...
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Types of Immunity: innate and adaptive
What is Immunity? Immunity is the ability of an organism to resist a particular infection or toxin by the action of specific antibodies or sensitized ...
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Meiosis, Stages, Meiosis vs Mitosis
WHAT IS MEIOSIS? Meiosis is a specialized kind of cell cycle that reduces the chromosome number by half, resulting in the production of haploid daughter ...
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Cell and Molecular biology by P. S. Lohar review
This is a book review post on Cell and Molecular Biology by Prakash S. Lohar. The book is by MJP Publishers (Chennai 600 005). I ...
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Checkpoints and Regulation of Cell Cycle
The cell cycle is an orderly series of events that take place in a cell leading to duplication of its DNA and division of cytoplasm ...
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LEUKAEMIA, TYPES AND DIAGNOSIS
LEUKAEMIA DEFINITION The word LEUKEMIA – is derived from the Greek word. ‘Leukos’ means white and ‘aima‘ means blood. Generally, the blood-forming cells are affected ...
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