Journal of Pharmaceutical Care & Health Systems
Open Access
ISSN: 2376-0419
ISSN: 2376-0419
Arturo Solís Herrera, María del Carmen Arias Esparza and Martha Patricia Solís Arias
Posters-Accepted Abstracts: J Pharma Care Health Sys
Metabolic processes are constantly taking place in our body no matter whether we eat, sleep or exercise. The study of metabolism has a long history, with the first scientific article dating back to the 17th century. Currently, nearly six million articles on metabolism have been published. We can, however not fully understand metabolism overall if we study the individual parts of the network of reactions. In the case of metabolism, we therefore need to know how the reactions and the enzymes catalyzing them fit together and act as a whole. To this end, metabolic pathway databases have been developed, however of the nearly 7,000 reactions already known only 199 reactions are common to all databases. The tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle, theoretically a key reaction in energy generation, showed considerable disagreement between databases. Thereby, integrating the knowledge contained in the various databases is easier said than done. In spite different explanations for the lack of consensus between the databases of the metabolic network, problem persists. However, we believe that the main problem is the ancient dogma of think about glucose as source of energy. In accordance with our research, glucose is source of carbon chains, of biomass only, but not energy source. Our finding of the intrinsic property of melanin to transform energy light into chemical energy breaks the ground. Plants have two bioenergetic organelles: Chloroplasts and mitochondria, and human being have melanosomas and mitochondria.