Obesity and Diabetes: Understanding the Link
Obesity is obviously a growing epidemic throughout many countries including America. There is rarely a day that goes by where I do not hear some mention to obes...
Tag: MAPK pathway
MAPK: A Mechanism of Cancer
Cancer. That one word strikes fear into the hearts of Americans. Our own bodies grow uncontrollably, destroying us. People everywhere have been affected by it, ...
The Path to Cell Destruction
This week my classmates and I dissected an article pertaining to the MAPK signaling cascade and its role in neurodegenerative diseases. Diseases such as Parkins...
Link between Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, Free radicals and Anti-oxidants!
Did you know that Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s disease share the same causal cellular pathway? This pathway is the MAPK pathway which is involved in cell...
Lou Gehrig's Disease: Causes and Treatment
“Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about the bad break I got. Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth.R...