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Metabolism - a glimpse of it
Hello folks,
Life's been a bit busy lately, so yesterday I finally got a chance to sit down and catch up on ASDLC a bit. One thing that struck me is the abundance of "Nutrient/Factor X is the key!" "No, nutrient/factor Y is!" sort of arguments vis-a-vis metabolism. One benefit to being pre-med is that my education so far allows me to recognize I don't know even 1% of the metabolic pathways and how they work. Metabolism is a vast network of checks and balances. Although there are some basic principles that can be understood, the overall process is simply too overwhelming for even a very highly educated and intelligent person to fully assimilate - never mind us. In order to give those who want it some small sense of how complex the metabolic networks in the human body are - and how inextricably they're intertwined - I've found a link that may help. In many college biology classrooms there is a huge chart that is covered with tiny little arrows and text that represents human metabolic processes. This is a highly simplified version of the same thing. If you click on any of the text labels you'll be taken to yet another complex chart that represents the system you click on. I hope this helps. http://www.genome.jp/dbget-bin/get_pathway?org_name=mim&mapno=01100 Take care, Carmen |
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Thanks, Carmen - now I get it!
(honk) S t a c i "Carmen" wrote in message ... Hello folks, Life's been a bit busy lately, so yesterday I finally got a chance to sit down and catch up on ASDLC a bit. One thing that struck me is the abundance of "Nutrient/Factor X is the key!" "No, nutrient/factor Y is!" sort of arguments vis-a-vis metabolism. One benefit to being pre-med is that my education so far allows me to recognize I don't know even 1% of the metabolic pathways and how they work. Metabolism is a vast network of checks and balances. Although there are some basic principles that can be understood, the overall process is simply too overwhelming for even a very highly educated and intelligent person to fully assimilate - never mind us. In order to give those who want it some small sense of how complex the metabolic networks in the human body are - and how inextricably they're intertwined - I've found a link that may help. In many college biology classrooms there is a huge chart that is covered with tiny little arrows and text that represents human metabolic processes. This is a highly simplified version of the same thing. If you click on any of the text labels you'll be taken to yet another complex chart that represents the system you click on. I hope this helps. http://www.genome.jp/dbget-bin/get_pathway?org_name=mim&mapno=01100 Take care, Carmen |
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Carmen wrote:
http://www.genome.jp/dbget-bin/get_pathway?org_name=mim&mapno=01100 Nice. I like the way you can zoom in categorically. Thanks. -- jamie ) "There's a seeker born every minute." |
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Carmen wrote:
In order to give those who want it some small sense of how complex the metabolic networks in the human body are - and how inextricably they're intertwined - I've found a link that may help. In many college biology classrooms there is a huge chart that is covered with tiny little arrows and text that represents human metabolic processes. This is a highly simplified version of the same thing. If you click on any of the text labels you'll be taken to yet another complex chart that represents the system you click on. I hope this helps. http://www.genome.jp/dbget-bin/get_pathway?org_name=mim&mapno=01100 Take care, Carmen This begins to explain in great detail how little I know, and how much researchers have been able to uncover in ways that I do not understand. Thanks for the opportunity to get a glimpse. No wonder the average older MD avoids scientific diet technology. HE too is probably completely swamped by the technical and scientific knowledge and has to "fake it" with his MD authority stance. Jim -- ................................ Keepsake gift for young girls. Unique and personal one-of-a-kind. Builds strong minds 12 ways. Guaranteed satisfaction - courteous money back - keep bonus gifts http://www.alicebook.com |
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Carmen wrote:
I hope this helps. http://www.genome.jp/dbget-bin/get_pathway?org_name=mim&mapno=01100 Thanks Carmen, this is great. I need things mapped out like this to "get it". -- Rudy - Remove the Z from my address to respond. "It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!" -Emiliano Zapata Check out the a.s.d.l-c FAQ at: http://www.grossweb.com/asdlc/faq.htm |
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Hi again,
I found a 'net copy of the chart I talked about seeing in many of my bio classrooms. W00T! It gives the best idea of the complexity of human metabolic processes. It's clickable too, so you can zoom in and follow pathways. http://www.expasy.org/cgi-bin/show_thumbnails.pl Enjoy! Take care, Carmen |
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"Carmen" wrote in message ...
Hi again, I found a 'net copy of the chart I talked about seeing in many of my bio classrooms. W00T! It gives the best idea of the complexity of human metabolic processes. It's clickable too, so you can zoom in and follow pathways. http://www.expasy.org/cgi-bin/show_thumbnails.pl Enjoy! Take care, Carmen that is too cool |
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"Carmen" wrote in message ...
Hi again, I found a 'net copy of the chart I talked about seeing in many of my bio classrooms. W00T! It gives the best idea of the complexity of human metabolic processes. It's clickable too, so you can zoom in and follow pathways. http://www.expasy.org/cgi-bin/show_thumbnails.pl Enjoy! Take care, Carmen that is too cool |
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Hi,
On 1-Sep-2004, (billydee) wrote: "Carmen" wrote in message ... Hi again, I found a 'net copy of the chart I talked about seeing in many of my bio classrooms. W00T! It gives the best idea of the complexity of human metabolic processes. It's clickable too, so you can zoom in and follow pathways. http://www.expasy.org/cgi-bin/show_thumbnails.pl Enjoy! Take care, Carmen that is too cool I'm not sure if you really mean that, but for a geek like me it really *is* cool. That's just the stuff they've mapped out too. Polyols (sugar alcohols) are still mostly a mystery so stuff like that isn't even on there. It's a wonder human beings function at all. ;-) Take care, Carmen |
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