Karina Alvarez Week 2: Difference between revisions

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This week's assignment is to evaluate this primary research article.

In order to fully understand the paper, I researched the terms that were not very familiar to me. These terms are defined here:

glutamate: major fast excitatory neurotransmitter in the mammalian central nervous system (Source)
glutamine: a crystalline amino acid occurring in proteins; important in protein metabolism (Source)
dehydrogenase: enzyme that oxidizes a substrate by transferring hydrogen to an acceptor that is either NAD/NADP or a flavin enzyme; removes hydrogen from its substrate (Source)
proline: amino acid abundant in collagens more than other proteins (Source)
Northern analysis: a procedure similar to the southern blot analysis, used mostly to separate and identify rNA fragments (Source)
permease: general term for a membrane protein that increases the permeability of the plasma membrane to a particular molecule by a process not requiring metabolic energy (Source)
oligonucleotides: polymers made up of a few nucleotides; in genetics, a short sequence synthesized to match a region where a mutation is known to occur, and then used as a probe (Source)
transferase: an enzyme that transfers a specific grouping from one molecule to another (Source)
flux: the total amount of a quantity passing through a given surface per unit time (Source)
metabolites: any substance produced by metabolism or by a metabolic process (Source)

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 *'''flux''': the total amount of a quantity passing through a given surface per unit time ([http://www.biology-online.org/dictionary/Flux Source])
 *'''metabolites''': any substance produced by metabolism or by a metabolic process ([http://www.biology-online.org/dictionary/Metabolite Source])
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