Ever wonder what’s going on in your body’s cells? Incredible numbers of chemical reactions, as generally mentioned in this post on cell biology. And now you can look at many of the documented chemical reactions in one chart.
Here are some of the chemical reactions going on in your cells right now
- Post author:Erich Vieth
- Post published:October 18, 2011
- Post category:Human animals
- Post comments:1 Comment
Erich Vieth
Erich Vieth is an attorney focusing on civil rights (including First Amendment), consumer law litigation and appellate practice. At this website often writes about censorship, corporate news media corruption and cognitive science. He is also a working musician, artist and a writer, having founded Dangerous Intersection in 2006. Erich lives in St. Louis, Missouri with his two daughters.
I find metabolism pathways extremely interesting.
Just look up cholesterol, in what it is being turned. And you get a sense how important cholesterol is for the creation of corticoids and Vitamin D, and how unjust its vilification is.
Here are two metabolism pathways charts with better resolution:
1. A zoomable PDF-version of the chart you linked:
http://www.sigmaaldrich.com/img/assets/4202/MetabolicPathways_6_17_04_.pdf
2. A clickable/searchable version of the “Boehringer Pathway Maps”:
http://web.expasy.org/cgi-bin/pathways/show_thumbnails.pl
http://web.expasy.org/pathways/