Tag: Salt
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🧂 Salt as the Gatekeeper Matrix
Domain Mechanism of Water Control Key Cell/System Salt Role PF4–CXCR4 Connection Biological Osmotic gradients across cell membranes Keratinocytes, melanocytes Na⁺ gradients drive cellular hydration and membrane potential High sodium upregulates CXCR4; PF4 may bind GAGs, triggering inflammation Physiological Plasma volume regulation via RAAS Endothelium, renal tubules Na⁺ modulates systemic hydration and blood pressure RAAS activation…
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Thiocyanate Metal Binding and metal-binding (PubMed Article Search)
METAL-BINDING ARTICLES Directing 2D-Coordination Networks: Combined Effects of a Conformationally Flexible 3,2′:6′,3″-Terpyridine and Chain Length Variation in 4′-(4-n-Alkyloxyphenyl) Substituents. Rocco D, Prescimone A, Constable EC, Housecroft CE.Molecules. 2020 Apr 4;25(7):1663. doi: 10.3390/molecules25071663.PMID: 32260325 Free PMC article. An increase in the n-alkyloxy chain length has two consequences: there is a change in the conformation of the 3,2′:6′,3″-tpy metal–binding domain, and…
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Thiocyanate (Redox) pub med search
[Mechanism of Thiocyanate Dehydrogenase Functioning Based on Structural Data]. Polyakov KM, Gavryushov S.Mol Biol (Mosk). 2025 Jan-Feb;59(1):141-153.PMID: 40542637 Russian. Thiocyanate dehydrogenase is enzyme catalyzing transformation of a thiocyanate ion into a cyanate ion with outcome of two electrons, two protons and a neutral atom of sulphur. …The complex with thiourea allows us to model binding of thiocyanate ion to the e …2Cite Lactoperoxidase: Properties, Functions,…
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Arsenic and Old Leeches
In 1816 Dr. James Rawlins Johnson published his Treatise on the Medicinal Leech. Besides the aforementioned methods of leech use, he studied the leech itself with exacting care. He tested to see if they were cannibals (they were); he froze them with or without salt to see if they would die (snow plus salt was worse).…
