Sentences with phrase «than oxygen transport»

This is likely, as recently discovered human globins appear to be involved in cell signaling rather than oxygen transport.

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Indeed, health officials and medical studies agree that to minimise periods of oxygen desaturation, newborn babies should be transported in a lie - flat travel system and babies should NOT be transported in an upright position for more than half - an - hour.

«Their cost of transport — the oxygen they use to move — is 48 percent lower than any other swimming animal,» says Bradford J. Gemmell, a marine biologist at the University of South Florida.

The most convincing evidence for this, says Jouzel, comes from isotope ratios; ice that has frozen in site has a higher proportion of water molecules containing the heavy form of oxygen, oxygen - 18, than that of ice that has been transported over long distances by weather systems.

More than one hundred vitamin B6 - dependent enzymes have been identified, mostly involved in amino acid metabolism: for oxygen transport via hemoglobin synthesis; in blood sugar regulation via conversion of stored carbohydrate to energy; in the development of the myelin sheath surrounding nerve cells; in the conversion of alphalinoleic acid to the essential long - chain fatty acid DHA; 28 and in the synthesis of neurotransmitters, phospholipids and sphingolipids, the vitamin niacin from tryptophan, and other vital metabolites.5 In addition to its role in enzyme reactions, B6 appears to moderate the action of some steroid hormones such as the glucocorticoid hormones, which in turn influence the metabolism of protein, carbohydrate and lipids.5, 9 B6 also is a potent antioxidant, rivaling carotenoids and vitamin E in its ability to quench reactive oxidants in the body.29

In fact, it contains more per serving than beef, which is extremely beneficial as iron promotes cell growth, proper liver function, the formation of hemoglobin and enzymes, and also transports oxygen throughout the body, according to MindBodyGreen.

The problem is that at heart rates higher than MAF, energy needs outpace both (1) the breakdown and use of fats for energy and (2) the intake and transport of oxygen, meaning that the body has no choice but to engage anaerobic channels — not of a particular muscle to fuel that particular muscle, but of the muscles across the body as a whole, in order to feed the metabolism's additional energy needs.

The reason more mitochondria don't always mean that you run faster (instead of longer) is because (1) you may have far more mitochondria than necessary to process the maximum amount of oxygen your lungs can take in and your red blood cells transport at any given time, (2) regardless of how many mitochondria you have, the motor neurons connected to your aerobic muscle fibers are smaller than those connected to your anaerobic muscle fibers.

Because an anemic cat is not transporting oxygen normally, the heart beats more rapidly than normal, and he or she will have less energy than normal.