Northern Nutritionals

Tag: neurological

  • Mitochondrial Dysfunction

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    Karline Jensen
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    A Role in Schizophrenia Schizophrenia research has pointed toward mitochondrial dysfunction as a mechanism that could help explain some of the disorder’s underlying biology.   Bartal et al. (2023) ran a systematic meta-analysis looking at genes responsible for building mitochondrial ribosomes — the Mitochondrial Ribosomal Proteins Large and Small (MRPL/MRPS) gene families — in people with…

  • Quercetin

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    Karline Jensen
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    Among the polyphenol phytochemicals found in blueberries, broccoli, onions, and green tea is the flavonoid quercetin (Li et al., 2021).  Quercetin is also found in apples and grapes (Gugliandolo et al., 2020).  Sanver et al. describe the structure of quercetin in a peer-reviewed primary article; they found that the different structures of different types of…