Research Articles
The Diabetes-Thiamine Connection: Can a Simple Vitamin Combat Metabolic Toxicity?
Exploring the evidence for altered thiamine metabolism in diabetes and the potential to oppose gluco- and lipotoxicity by rational supplementation.
Nitrogen Topdressing: The Scientific Code Regulating Tobacco Leaf Maturation
Explore how nitrogen topdressing affects carbon and nitrogen metabolism enzymes during tobacco leaf maturation and its impact on tobacco quality.
The Skeleton's Secret: How Growing Bones Use an "Inefficient" Engine to Build Strength
Discover how the absence of the glycerol phosphate shuttle in growth plates reveals a sophisticated biological strategy for building strong bones.
Sugar, Cancer, and a Surprising Twist: How Xylitol Exposes a Hidden Weakness in Tumors
Discover how xylitol, a common sugar substitute, reveals metabolic vulnerabilities in cancer cells and opens new therapeutic possibilities.
The Metabolic Trade-Off: How Blood Pressure Treatment Reshapes Your Inner Chemistry
Exploring how common blood pressure medications like thiazide diuretics can silently alter metabolism, raising blood sugar levels and creating complex health trade-offs.
Catching Cancer's Fugitives: How Metabolic Clues in Blood Could Revolutionize Lung Cancer Treatment
Exploring how metabolic gene expression in circulating tumor cells from early-stage non-small cell lung cancer patients could transform detection and treatment.
The Hidden Messenger in Your Blood: How Exercise hormone Irisin Talks to Your Metabolism
Discover how irisin, the exercise-induced hormone, communicates with your metabolic system and influences cholesterol levels and uric acid metabolism.
The Secret Life of a Molecule: How Your Body Processes Trichloroethanol
Explore the fascinating pharmacokinetics of trichloroethanol - from sedative properties to environmental toxicology and metabolic pathways in the human body.
The Double Life of 1,4-Butanediol: From Plastic to Intoxicant
Exploring the dual identity of 1,4-butanediol as an industrial chemical and dangerous intoxicant through its metabolic pathway and toxicological profile.
The Brain's Gatekeepers: A Metabolic Mystery at the Blood-Brain Barrier
Explore how the brain's delicate fuel supply is protected by a dynamic cellular shield through glycolytic and pentose phosphate pathways.