We smile, we cry, we laugh, we get mad, we sulk and at times we just walk around with a straight face. Your face speaks for your mind. That is the power of our nature of expression. Apparently some folks have an extremely subtle nature of expressing themselves such that it takes a hefty chunk of patience and monetary investment to actually see through it.
Alright, I’ll cut underestimating these folks by masking our inefficiency to read them with accuracy and precision. My work here as a fellow, is to study the expression of a crucial protein which hops around in our body, assisting the production of important steroids in our system. We shall call him StAR. Oh yeah! I bet he is one. Not only because, this protein governs the rate-limiting step in the steroidogenic process, but also because it is the acronym for its long name – Steroidogenic Acute Regulatory protein. So that’s our StAR shining brightly in our adrenal, gonadal and every al(l) other cells that generate steroids. Steroids (in the form of hormones) are what drives you to metabolise pretty much all that you take in, mediate your behavioural responses, maintain your ionic pool, make a girl a girl and a boy a boy etc etc. Due to StAR’s cardinal role in the steroidal synthesis it is quite simple to infer that elevated expression of this protein corresponds to an up-regulation of steroidogenesis. Correspondingly, doing the math for low protein expression is no rocket science.
So why am I fiddling with StAR so much? Few studies suggest that Round up a monopolized herbicide by Monsanto widely used in the market has an adverse effect on the steroidogenic process in mammals. This is likely to jack the adrenal and gonadal steroid hormone production and believe me, you don’t want that. In our work, we treat our cute yet ill-fated rats with this herbicide at different concentrations of and study StAR’s expression in the adrenal cells with respect to this treatment, which according to some pioneers in the reproductive endocrinology domain does drop and if our study substantiates their claims, then D-Uh! Monsanto’s gonna party in hell!! :P (Ok, that was a li’l too exaggerated....this biggie can gobble anything :/ )
Alright, I’ll cut underestimating these folks by masking our inefficiency to read them with accuracy and precision. My work here as a fellow, is to study the expression of a crucial protein which hops around in our body, assisting the production of important steroids in our system. We shall call him StAR. Oh yeah! I bet he is one. Not only because, this protein governs the rate-limiting step in the steroidogenic process, but also because it is the acronym for its long name – Steroidogenic Acute Regulatory protein. So that’s our StAR shining brightly in our adrenal, gonadal and every al(l) other cells that generate steroids. Steroids (in the form of hormones) are what drives you to metabolise pretty much all that you take in, mediate your behavioural responses, maintain your ionic pool, make a girl a girl and a boy a boy etc etc. Due to StAR’s cardinal role in the steroidal synthesis it is quite simple to infer that elevated expression of this protein corresponds to an up-regulation of steroidogenesis. Correspondingly, doing the math for low protein expression is no rocket science.
So why am I fiddling with StAR so much? Few studies suggest that Round up a monopolized herbicide by Monsanto widely used in the market has an adverse effect on the steroidogenic process in mammals. This is likely to jack the adrenal and gonadal steroid hormone production and believe me, you don’t want that. In our work, we treat our cute yet ill-fated rats with this herbicide at different concentrations of and study StAR’s expression in the adrenal cells with respect to this treatment, which according to some pioneers in the reproductive endocrinology domain does drop and if our study substantiates their claims, then D-Uh! Monsanto’s gonna party in hell!! :P (Ok, that was a li’l too exaggerated....this biggie can gobble anything :/ )
