The vesicle then ferries the cargo to a membrane-bound organelle within the cell called a lysosome that is filled with digestive enzymes. Researchers suspected that microglia could also break down ...

Pappenheimer and Goettsch 1 described the symptoms of chick encephalomalacia produced by vitamin E deficiency and indicated that capillary thrombosis may be the primary cause of the observed ...

which is crucial for the activation of resident enzymes that degrade exogenous material trapped in the lumen of the lysosome. Integration of the secretory (biosynthetic) and endolysosomal systems ...

The Metabolic Disease Laboratory provides services for the diagnosis of lysosomal storage diseases. The laboratory provides screening of urine for glycosaminoglycans, oligosaccharides, sialic acid, ...

KANAZAWA, Japan, April 2, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Researchers at Nano Life Science Institute (WPI-NanoLSI), Kanazawa University, report in Nature Communications how the targeted suppression of lysosome ...

Its enzymes dissolve the substances ingested by the cell and under certain circumstances can dissolve the cell itself By Christian de Duve Join Our Community of Science Lovers!

Gain Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: GANX) (“Gain”, or the “Company”), a clinical-stage biotechnology company leading the discovery and development of the next generation of allosteric small molecule ...

Human milk contains a great number of enzymes, many of which have specific ... gland from local proteolysis (caused by leukocytic or lysosomal proteases) and might prevent the proteolytic ...

The biotech is focusing on precision, small-molecule medicines that work via a process known as cellular clearance by activating the lysosome, sometimes referred to as the cell’s recycling and ...