Wednesday, 25 February 2009

Meaningless verbeage?

Can anyone make some sense of this?

'The subcellular localisations of oxidases generating ROS under conditions where the effects of hypoxia are examined and components of energy metabolism-associated systems maintaining redox control create a potential organisation for regulation of redox sensitive components of signalling systems in regions where changes in oxygen tension result in alterations in redox.'

taken from Wolin et al., 2007

Sometimes scientific literature annoys me, and sometimes it dives into the realms of the ridiculous. He goes on:

'For example, the loss of maintenance of reduced thioredoxin and GSH as a pool of NADPH is allowed to oxidase is likely to be associated with an accumulation of oxidised thioredoxin or GSSG, which may be co-factors in enzymatic reactions controlling the redox status of protein thiols involved in the regulation of a process such as relaxation or contraction.'

I like long sentences, but I also like them to be meaningful. Let this be a lesson to me about how, perhaps, people might feel when they read some of my more complex concoctions.

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