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Hop diffusion occurs due to the discontinuity of the cell cytoplasmic membrane. According to the fences and pickets model , plasma membrane is compartmentalized by actin-based membrane-skeleton "fences", that occur when cytoplasmic domains collide with the actin -based membrane skeleton; [ 1 ] and anchored-transmembrane protein "pickets". [ 2 ]
The Việt Nam Quang Phục Hội (Hán-Nôm: 越南光復會; Vietnamese: [vìət naːm kwaːŋ fùkp hôjˀ], Restoration League of Vietnam or Restoration Society of Vietnam [1]: 16 or VNQPH, was a nationalist republican militant revolutionary organization of Vietnam that was active in the 1910s, under the leadership of Phan Bội Châu and ...
Hyperlipidemia is abnormally high levels of any or all lipids (e.g. fats, triglycerides, cholesterol, phospholipids) or lipoproteins in the blood. [2] The term hyperlipidemia refers to the laboratory finding itself and is also used as an umbrella term covering any of various acquired or genetic disorders that result in that finding. [3]
Dyslipidemia is a metabolic disorder characterized by abnormally high or low amounts of any or all lipids (e.g. fats, triglycerides, cholesterol, phospholipids) or lipoproteins in the blood. [1]
High cholesterol levels normally do not cause any symptoms. Yellow deposits of cholesterol-rich fat may be seen in various places on the body such as around the eyelids (known as xanthelasma palpebrarum), the outer margin of the iris (known as arcus senilis corneae), and in the tendons of the hands, elbows, knees, and feet, particularly the Achilles tendon (known as a tendon xanthoma).
A lipoprotein is a biochemical assembly whose primary function is to transport hydrophobic lipid (also known as fat) molecules in water, as in blood plasma or other extracellular fluids. They consist of a triglyceride and cholesterol center, surrounded by a phospholipid outer shell, with the hydrophilic portions oriented outward toward the ...
The large subunit of MTP, also known as the alpha subunit, contains an N-terminal half beta barrel, an alpha helix and a C-terminal lipid binding site that lies between two beta pleated sheets. It is a member of the large lipid transfer protein family, like apolipoprotein B (apo B), with which it interacts, but unlike apo B, it is not secreted.
Inositol trisphosphate or inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate abbreviated InsP 3 or Ins3P or IP 3 is an inositol phosphate signaling molecule. It is made by hydrolysis of phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate (PIP 2), a phospholipid that is located in the plasma membrane, by phospholipase C (PLC).