Tag: heart

As a radio station, the heart can emit waves to other hearts and receive waves in various frequencies from the sun and other hearts via its electro-magnetic field. Good emotions such as love, forgiveness, gratitude, and joy help to keep the heart healthy, however negative emotions such as anger,...

Calghatgi’s discovery that three popular antibiotics (Abs) enhanced mitochondrial reactive oxygen (ROS) and lipid peroxide (LP) while depleting their natural absorbant glutathione prompted me to look into the potential carcinogenic effects of these genotoxic chemicals. Antibiotics had a wide spectrum of effects on mitochondria and cellular DNA, all of...

Mitochondria are responsible for maintaining cell viability and essential biological activities by producing energy (ATP). These organelles are also a major source of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and a number of apoptosis inducers. The importance of mitochondria in a variety of areas of cell physiology and pathology, such as...

Understanding muscle bioenergetics requires identifying mitochondrial roles and regulatory mechanisms, which is a key challenge in physiology/pathophysiology. Microtubules, intermediate filaments, and microfilaments are three cytoskeletal structures that play a critical role in mitochondrial structure/architecture, intracellular organisation, and motility. Furthermore, various cytoskeleton-mitochondrial contacts can actively contribute to the regulation of...

Christina Rossetti (1830-1894), a Victorian poet, was always plagued by poor health, and her mid-life episode of life-threatening illness (1870-1872) when she suffered from Graves’ illness provides an illuminating case study of the ways in which poetry and prose can represent illness. Rossetti, her relatives, and her doctors understood...