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Balıklar Neden Donmuyorlar?

2021-2022, Türkçe İçerik / Nuriye ARSLANSOY / 21 Haziran 2022

Sıcaklık sıfırın altına indiğinde suyun donduğu gerçeğini hepimiz biliriz. Tüm organizmalarda da tıpkı vücudumuzda olduğu gibi belirli bir oranda su bulunur. Peki, soğuk ortamlarda yaşayan canlılar neden donmazlar? Spesifik olarak soracak olursak Antarktika gibi buzullarla kaplı sularda balıklar nasıl yaşarlar? Bu yazımda sizlere antifriz proteinler (AFP’ler) hakkında bilgiler vererek özellikle balıkların soğuk ortamlara adaptasyonuna ışık […]

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Reactive Oxygen Species and Lipid Peroxidation

2021-2022, İngilizce İçerik / Furkan EKER / 20 Haziran 2022

Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are highly reactive compounds, which is making them very dangerous in certain situations. They are mostly formed from O2 molecules in the mitochondrial electron transport chain1. When O2 molecules become reactive species, such as hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) or superoxide (O2–), they might be counted as stable compounds. Unfortunately, they might become

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Rem Sleeping, Dreaming, And Creativity

2021-2022, İngilizce İçerik / Ranya DEMİR / 19 Haziran 2022

Since scientists discovered a sleep stage called REM, their research and examination of this sleeping stage brought our minds some questions like “Does REM sleep affects our creativity?” or “Is this true that REM sleep provides realistic dreams?”. So here we are to understand better this REM sleep stage and how it works to know

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Autoimmune Diseases

2021-2022, İngilizce İçerik / Ece YARDIMCIEL / 18 Haziran 2022

The first way to protect host cells from infectious agents is the activities of our immune system which requires highly complex interactions between cells and molecules. When the immune system recognizes the auto-antigens in our molecules as a result of inadequate tolerance, it recognizes them as harmful to us and starts to destroy our own

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ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE AND MICROGLIAL ACTIVATION

2021-2022, İngilizce İçerik / Buse ÜNLÜ / 17 Haziran 2022

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is one of the most encountered irreversible neurogenerative diseases 1. However its complicated pathogenicity is not well-understood, amyloid-beta (Aβ) dysmetabolism, formation of extracellular Aβ deposits, presence of intracellular neurofibrillary tangles (NT), and neurodegeneration (ND) in the hippocampus and neocortex are involved in main processes in AD 2 3 4. Existence of the

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