The present study undertook a comprehensive assessment of the acute biochemical oxidative stress parameters in both cellular and, notably, mitochondrial isolates following severe upper lumbar contusion spinal cord injury (SCI) in adult female Sprague Dawley rats. At 24h post-injury, spinal cord tissue homogenate and mitochondrial fractions were isolated concurrently and assessed for glutathione...

Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD) is a measure of the oxygen used in bacteria mediated oxidation of organic substances in water and wastewater. Theoretically an infinite time is required for complete biochemical oxidation of organic matter, but the measurement is made over 5-days at 20 C or 3-days at 27 C test period with or without dilution. Researchers have worked to further reduce the time of ...

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The reduction of cystine and related dithio acids (R-S-S-R) to thiol acids (R-S-H) presents an interesting phase in the study of the oxidation and reduction properties of the cysteine-cystine and other dithio-thiol acid systems. Reaction rates of the reduction of these compounds by the reversible chromous-chromic and vanadous-vanadic systems, have been determined under various conditions of con...

A hypothesis is presented that electronic and vibrational resonant energy states are important in biochemical reactions due to their coupling to hydrogen transfer reactions. The hypothesis is based upon (1) the involvement of hydrogen in most biochemical reactions, (2) the unique abiity of hydrogen to act as an energy trap for resonant energy and (3) demonstrations of the coupling of resonant e...

Primary cardiomyopathy is an important cause of mortality in children and adults. Apart from inherited disorders of myocardial contractile and structural proteins, several defects of energy metabolism may cause cardiomyopathy. Most of the energy required for myocardial contraction is derived from aerobic metabolism. Faulty aerobic metabolism involving the heart may be due to defects of mitochon...

Ancient traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has effectively relied on the theory of yin-yang balance in diagnoses and treatments of diseases and disorders for more than 2000 years. However, in eastern society, yin-yang is regarded as an incomprehensible ideology without definite physical meaning. Consequently, the yin-yang balance in medicine has not been studied by modern scientific means. In t...