PANFOLI , Isabella

The retina is the most oxygen consuming tissue of the body. Rod and cone photoreceptors efficiently carry out visual cascades, which are energetically costly processes. Data has recently been published that suggests that the metabolic support to phototransduction in the rod outer segment (OS) may originate directly in the OS, which is able to...

More than any other organs, brain energy demand is entirely dependent on glucose catabolism through the oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS). Glucose is the major cerebral energy substrate in the nervous system (NS). Ketone bodies can be utilized as an additional substrate, but in any case, neurons critically depend on oxygen supply. This sounds...

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We studied the in vivo and in vitro effects of Hg2+ and Cu2+ on the activity of phospholipase C (PLC), specific for phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate, in the mussel (Mytilus galloprovincialis Lam). The enzyme activity was assayed in tissue homogenates from gills and digestive gland. The toxic effect of Hg2+ appeared to be stronger than that...

Nervous system is a great oxygen consumer, but the site of oxygen absorption has remained elusive. Four proteomic studies have shown that the respiratory complexes I to V may be expressed in isolated myelin. Myelin is an outgrowth of glial cells, surrounding many axons in multiple spires both in peripheral and central nervous system. Recent...

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