Citric acid cycle
The citric acid cycle is an energy producing biochemical
mechanism.
In reality it
is not a cycle but a
vortex,
which will now be illustrated. In order to simplify the following arguments
only one cycle phase will
be discussed, the Isocitrate -> a-Ketoglutarate transition, which
involves three processes:
1..Isocitrate, a-Ketoglutarate transition.
2. NADH
3. Isocitrate dehydrogenase.
A nice illustration of the citric acid cycle is at:
http://people.unt.edu/~hds0006/tca/
We start with a zygote, which divides symmetrically twice.
The three zygotes grow into three different stem processes (proliferons).
Each will create a specialized transient process, which will participate
in the present transition.
At state = 1, the first stem process creates a bud
which is a glucose molecule. It evolves into a transient process whose
states represent different molecules made of four or five carbon atoms.
This is the backbone of the citric acid vortex. In the second proliferon,
only the transient process is depicted, and the stem process was omitted.
The transient process evolves into NADH. When the
third stem process reaches state-x (gene-x), it creates a bud that
will evolve into a dehydrogenase. The
processes operate in different dimensions of a multidimensional
space called here Wisdom of the Body (WOB). They meet physically
at time = now. The vertical line marks the three synchronous transitions {{i ,j}, {k ,l},{r, s}}.
At time = now +1 proliferon-3 will return to its original dimension, or
will be catabolized, while another enzyme or factor (proliferon-4) will
join proliferon-1 to accomplish the next transition in the citric acid
vortex. When transient process-1 reaches its end state, it dies,
whereupon the stem process-1 creates a new glucose bud, and the cycle
starts again.
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If you were amazed
at the complexity of the Mandelbrot set, you will appreciate the
extreme complexity of this vortex. It defies fractal geometry, and may not be untangled with Julia set mappings.
Despite this, our WOB succeeds controlling this apparent mess, keeping us
alive. Fortunately WOB has a language which allows the physician to understand
some of its ways, and influence unconscious processes, which is the main
message of this site.
Further reading:
A new kind of Medicine:
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