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Fig; A Nutrient-Packed Addition to Your Diet - Indian Flash News

Discover the delightful world of fig and their numerous health benefits. From essential nutrients to heart health and weight management,

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Seven plant capacities to adapt to abiotic stress:

1️⃣ Energy
2️⃣ Repair
3️⃣ Communication
4️⃣ Supply-chain
5️⃣ Exclusion
6️⃣ Shape-shifting
7️⃣ Asset management

https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erad179

#DarwinReview by Rana Munns and A Harvey Millar

#Cold #Deficiency #Drought #Flooding #Heat #Nutrient #Oxidative #Salinity #Toxicity #Stress #AbioticStress

Seven plant capacities to adapt to abiotic stress

This review presents seven inherent plant capacities that are essential for reproductive success during the stresses of drought, salinity, flooding, temperature

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#Flies 🦟 exposed to #μg conditions show behavioral and #neuronal deficits, #glial alterations, #oxidative damage, and #apoptosis https://www.cell.com/cell-reports/fulltext/S2211-1247(22)01099-3

Glial cells : cells in the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord) and the peripheral nervous system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glia
Apoptosis : programmed cell #death ☠️ that occurs in multicellular organisms https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apoptosis

#Spaceflight #microgravity

A new #drug delivery system delivers an #antioxidant directly to #mitochondria in the #liver, mitigating the effects of #oxidative stress. Mitochondria are microscopic #organelles found within #cells, and are well-known as the “powerhouse of the cell.”
#Biology #Chemistry #Medical #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2023/05/med05102301.html
Delivery of antioxidants to liver mitochondria

A new drug delivery system delivers an antioxidant directly to mitochondria

What is the role of #DNAdamage #kinase #DNAPKcs in the cellular response to #oxidative stress?

Benjamin Chen at UT Southwestern, Hsinyu Lee at National Taiwan University, and coworkers implicate it as part of a #checkpoint that modulates #ANT2-#VDAC2-mediated ADP-ATP exchange over #mitochondrial membranes to limit #OXPHOS-derived ROS

https://www.embopress.org/doi/10.15252/embj.2022112094

Oxidative DNA damage by N4-hydroxycytidine, a metabolite of the SARS-CoV-2 antiviral molnupiravir

N4-hydroxycytidine (NHC) is an active metabolite of the SARS-CoV-2 antiviral molnupiravir. NHC treated with cytidine deaminase induced Cu(II)-mediated generatio

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