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Red light and myopia
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Myopia, also near nearsightedness because the afflicted individual sees near objects but has issues with far away objects, has been reviewed on Wikipedia. Wikipedia authors attribute the main factors as increased length of the eyeball and/or changes in the refractive index of the cornea. A few publications were found demonstrating that red light used to treat…
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Red Light and mitocondria
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Right light therapy is said to target cytochrome C oxidase, complex IV, of the mitochondria. Most complexes of the mitochondria contain functional groups that absorb one wavelength of visible light or another. Absorption of light may translate into increased membrane potential, which translates into more ATP. This post introduces the role of ATP in…
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light and soluble guanylyl cyclase
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What happens when to a molecule when it absorbs visible light? A 1999 Scientific American post explored the question of why a brick wall heats up when it absorbs light. Two explanations were given to this seemingly simple lay question: What happens when light strikes an object? Possibility #4 is particularly intriguing because the rate of…
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Leucine and niacin interactions
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Leucine and niacin/ nicotinic acid (NA) seem to interact with each other to promote fat metabolism. B6 might also have synergistic interaction with leucine. The leucine/NA combination is also found in dietary supplements marketed by NuBio, which initiated this exploration that led us to NuSirt exploration. NuBio to NuTert A request was made to…
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Vps34
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This post was initiated by a request to take a quick look at a review on the catalytic subunit of the class III phosphoatidylinositol 3-kinase catalytic subunit called vps34 in yeast. [1] The mammalian homolog is coded for by the PIK3c3 gene.