• In addition to supplying cellular energy, mitochondria are involved in other tasks, such as signaling , cellular differentiation , and cell death , as well as maintaining control of the cell cycle and cell growth . (wikipedia.org)
  • [20] This finding has led to general acceptance of the endosymbiotic hypothesis - that free-living prokaryotic ancestors of modern mitochondria permanently fused with eukaryotic cells in the distant past, evolving such that modern animals, plants, fungi, and other eukaryotes are able to respire to generate cellular energy . (wikipedia.org)
  • Plants, algae and a few other organisms rely on a process known as photosynthesis to fuel themselves, as they can harness cellular structures called chloroplasts to convert light into usable energy. (elifesciences.org)
  • These are as follows: sustained proliferative signalling, cell death resistance, replicative immortality, genome instability and increased mutations, tumour-promoted inflammation, insensibility to growth repressors, deregulation of cellular energetics, evasion of immune destruction, induction of metastasis, and promotion of angiogenesis. (hindawi.com)
  • Cyanide blocks the cellular electron transport mechanism and cellular respiration by inhibiting the mitochondrial ferricytochrome oxidase system and other enzymes. (scienceoxygen.com)
  • How does cyanide inhibit cellular respiration? (scienceoxygen.com)
  • This effectively halts cellular respiration by blocking the reduction of oxygen to water. (scienceoxygen.com)
  • This prevents the electron transport chain (the last part of cellular respiration) from working, meaning that the cell can no longer produce ATP for energy. (scienceoxygen.com)
  • Shock is a state of compromised tissue perfusion that causes cellular hypoxia and is defined as a syndrome initiated by acute hypoperfusion, leading to tissue hypoxia and vital organ dysfunction (see the image below). (medscape.com)
  • This breakdown process of food in the cell with the release of energy in the form of ATP is known as cellular respiration. (vedantu.com)
  • Cellular respiration occurs in the cells of all organisms. (vedantu.com)
  • Although hypoxic or ischemia tolerance in AGS involves physiological adaptations, little is known about the critical cellular mechanisms underlying intrinsic AGS cell resilience to metabolic stress. (elifesciences.org)
  • This protein is found in a cellular compartment called the mitochondria, which is responsible for supplying energy to the rest of the cell and therefore plays an important role in metabolic processes. (elifesciences.org)
  • In other words,the process in which all the food materials eaten by an organism, is utilized for cellular respiration to obtain energy, is called nutrition. (rbsesolutions.com)
  • Anti-cell death is a technique adopted by multi-cellular organisms as a defensive and developmental mechanism (Franklin-Tong and Gourlay, pg 390). (essaywriter.org)
  • At the cellular level, aging is marked by depletion of adult stem cell reservoirs, the inability to maintain baseline homeostasis, a reduced response to stress, an increased accumulation of damaged DNA leading to telomere shortening, and mitochondrial dysfunction [ 1,2 ]. (karger.com)
  • It should reside graded from method failure which sustains the cellular organism of the transmission of a general or delayed to the representatives of a Summary, as a disease of Previous hypertension. (siriuspixels.com)
  • Dr. Otto Warburg first described, more than 80 years ago, that a fundamental biochemical difference between tumor cells and their normal counterparts was that tumor cells rely on aerobic glycolysis for ATP generation, unlike most normal differentiated cells of the body, which use mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation. (aacrjournals.org)
  • Mitochondria have a double membrane structure and use aerobic respiration to generate adenosine triphosphate (ATP), which is used throughout the cell as a source of chemical energy . (wikipedia.org)
  • The toxicity of cyanide is linked mainly to the cessation of aerobic cell metabolism. (scienceoxygen.com)
  • When the breakdown of glucose occurs with the use of oxygen, it is known as aerobic respiration. (vedantu.com)
  • known hemoproteins and does not require heme for electron trans- Most aerobic organisms synthesize heme by a multistep pathway port in the respiratory chain, protection against oxidative stress, or that is conserved in all three domains of life: bacteria, archaea, desaturation of fatty acids. (medicinelakex1.com)
  • 2). In aerobic organisms that produce energy mainly through Some kinetoplastids that parasitize insects obtain heme from their oxidative phosphorylation, most of the synthesized heme is used bacterial endosymbionts, which can be eliminated by antibiotic for the formation of the cytochromes functioning in the electron treatment, turning these protists into heme auxotrophs (17). (medicinelakex1.com)
  • [5] The eukaryote Monocercomonoides is known to have completely lost its mitochondria, [6] and the multicellular organism Henneguya salminicola is known to have retained mitochondrion-related organelles in association with a complete loss of their mitochondrial genome. (wikipedia.org)
  • More than one or many cells combine and coordinate to form a multicellular organism. (practically.com)
  • A large number of unicellular organisms , such as microsporidia , parabasalids and diplomonads , have reduced or transformed their mitochondria into other structures . (wikipedia.org)
  • Multicellular organisms have several advantages over unicellular organisms. (practically.com)
  • Unicellular organisms represent a single cell, while multicellular organisms are made up of numerous cells. (practically.com)
  • Early chloroplasts were probably independent bacteria that were captured and 'domesticated' by other cells for their ability to extract energy from the sun. (elifesciences.org)
  • 2. Leeuwenhoek (1674) observed few living cells capable of moving, such as bacteria, protozoa, spermatozoa and red blood corpuscles under his own designed microscope. (practically.com)
  • Saprophyte: Organisms like bacteria and fungi feed on dead, decaying organic matter. (rbsesolutions.com)
  • The free-living nematode Caenorhabditis eleganslacks the capacity to synthesize heme but is able to take it from the cytochromes respiration sterols protist bacteria it feeds on (15). (medicinelakex1.com)
  • Exiguobacterium bacteria have adapted to thrive in these challenging conditions and possess various resistance mechanisms, including biofilm formation, redox reactions, methylation, and altered respiration. (bvsalud.org)
  • Anthrax bacteria can survive in the environment by forming spores. (who.int)
  • it recognizes free antigen molecules in solution and matures into plasma cells that secrete immunoglobulin (antibodies) that inactivate the antigens a term used to describe rod-shaped bacteriaa prokaryotic microorganism without a cell membrane or nucleus. (pdfdrug.com)
  • Allstar contains egg shell membrane and MSM for joint support, curcumin for protection from inflammation, equine specific probiotics for enhanced digestion, enzymes and organic papaya to naturally support a healthy digestive process, colostrum for immune support, proprietary herb blend to support optimal lung function, and BeneCell a special blend of purified nucleotides for cell regeneration. (gettyequinenutrition.com)
  • Egg Membrane - Comprised of collagen, elastin, chondroitin sulfate and hyaluronic acid - the building blocks of connective tissue - natural egg membrane is a great ingredient to promote joint health. (gettyequinenutrition.com)
  • The sulfur in MSM helps promote flexibility and elasticity of body tissue and helps maintain cell membrane permeability. (gettyequinenutrition.com)
  • Photosynthesis is a oxidation-reduction process conduct in mesophyll cells in a leaf. (rbsesolutions.com)
  • Fast" process, such as photosynthesis, respiration and stomatal regulation are implemented on a time step of one day (or one month, interpolating between output values for adjacent months to obtain a value for each day). (lu.se)
  • Studies from a number of laboratories in the past decade have revealed that the central pathways deregulated in cancer often serve to coordinately regulate both classic oncogenic signaling pathways controlling cell proliferation and cell survival with pathways controlling cell metabolism. (aacrjournals.org)
  • Thus, a low pH medium allows greater accumulation and metabolism of auxin into plant cells in the base of cuttings, thereby increasing rooting performance. (globalsciencebooks.info)
  • Cells are the smallest living organisms that can perform all the necessary functions for life, such as growth, reproduction, and metabolism. (proprofs.com)
  • All living cells exhibit certain basic properties like respiration, growth, metabolism etc. (practically.com)
  • Parasitic ecule because it reversibly binds to certain proteins, such as kinetoplastid flagellates represent a rare example of organisms transcription factors and ion channels, and thus modulates their that depend on oxidative metabolism but are heme auxotrophs. (medicinelakex1.com)
  • It interacts with metabolism, have retained a few hemoproteins, for which heme is various apoproteins giving rise to functional hemoproteins, likely obtained from their hosts (16). (medicinelakex1.com)
  • nitrogen metabolism in lignifying pinus taeda cell cultures. (liverpool.ac.uk)
  • HMGB1 is an abundant protein, 10 6 molecules per cell [ 7 ], which has been postulated as a redox sensor [ 8 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • 1) The discharge of molecules synthesized by the cell. (web.id)
  • The algae provides the salamander with oxygen and nutrients, while the salamander protects the algae from being eaten by other organisms. (amphipedia.com)
  • Cancer cells try to avoid the overproduction of reactive oxygen species by metabolic rearrangements. (hindawi.com)
  • Cyanide prevents the cells of the body from using oxygen. (scienceoxygen.com)
  • The mechanism of cyanide intoxication has been attributed to the inhibition of cytochrome oxidase, thereby decreasing the tissue utilization of oxygen. (scienceoxygen.com)
  • Determinants of cardiac function and oxygen delivery to tissues. (medscape.com)
  • Whereas the air we respire in (oxygen-rich) is transported to all the body parts and each cell ultimately. (vedantu.com)
  • For the cells, oxygen present in the air helps in the food breakdown. (vedantu.com)
  • In the cell, the food or glucose is broken down into carbon dioxide and water using oxygen. (vedantu.com)
  • Also, our muscle cells can respire anaerobically, but only for less time, when there is a temporary deficiency of oxygen. (vedantu.com)
  • One such animal is the Arctic ground squirrel, an extreme hibernator that can drop its body temperatures to below 0°C. This hibernation ability means the cells of Arctic ground squirrels can survive severe shortages of blood and oxygen. (elifesciences.org)
  • found that when this variant form of ATP5G1 was introduced into the cells of mice, their mitochondria was better at coping with stress conditions, such as low oxygen, low temperature and poisoning. (elifesciences.org)
  • Tissues exist within organs which exist within organ systems. (pdfroom.com)
  • All organs, tissues, or cells cannot carry out all the functions. (practically.com)
  • also known as fermentationstage of mitosis or meiosis where the sister chromatids begin to separate and begin move to the opposite poles of the the structure of an animal or plant or of any of its partsa vascular plant whose sex organs are enclosed by flowers and seeds are enclosed by an ovary (fruit)the eukaryotic cells that make up animal tissues. (pdfdrug.com)
  • In multiple organs, including the lungs, age-related tissue and organ dysfunction interferes with tissue regeneration, which requires functional stem cells. (karger.com)
  • Stem cells of all organs - including the lung, which harbors distinct stem cells for each separate tissue that makes up the lung as a whole - reside in niches described as a microenvironment that supports and maintains the 'stemness' of cells as a critical reservoir for maintaining tissue homeostasis and responding to injury [ 3 ]. (karger.com)
  • The anatomy and physiology that make this happen varies greatly, depending on the size of the organism, the environment in which it lives and its evolutionary history. (wikipedia.org)
  • A diagram called a phylogenetic tree can be used to show evolutionary relationships among organisms. (pdfroom.com)
  • It involves organizing and categorizing organisms based on their characteristics and evolutionary relationships. (proprofs.com)
  • An introduction to the diversity of invertebrate animals, emphasizing their evolutionary relationships and functional, behavioural, and ecological aspects of their biology. (trentu.ca)
  • Through cell survival-based cDNA expression screens in neural progenitor cells, we identify a genetic variant of AGS Atp5g1 that confers cell resilience to metabolic stress. (elifesciences.org)
  • But, it is unclear how their cells are able to endure this metabolic stress. (elifesciences.org)
  • These findings provide the first evidence of a protein variant that is responsible for protecting cells during the metabolic stress conditions caused by hibernation. (elifesciences.org)
  • Other factors have since been linked with the decision by plant cells to activate cell death, including cell survival signals, stress signals, developmental cues, pathogen recognition and metabolic state. (essaywriter.org)
  • Reuben J. Shaw, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Molecular and Cell Biology Laboratory, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, 10010 N. Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037. (aacrjournals.org)
  • Chapter 3 Biochemistry and cell biology of calcium channels and signaling involved in plant growth and environmental responses. (globalsciencebooks.info)
  • Home » Biology » How does cyanide lead to cell death? (scienceoxygen.com)
  • CHAPTER SUMMARY 1.1 The Science of Biology Biology is the science that studies living organisms and their interactions with one another and their environments. (pdfroom.com)
  • What branch of biology deals with the naming and classifying of organisms? (proprofs.com)
  • Although most of a eukaryotic cell's DNA is contained in the cell nucleus , the mitochondrion has its own genome ("mitogenome") that is substantially similar to bacterial genomes. (wikipedia.org)
  • 4. In 1831, Robert Brown discovered the presence of nucleus in the cells of orchid root. (practically.com)
  • the amount of dna per nucleus and the coefficient of variation for measurement of individual nuclei were determined for cells from dormant embryos of pinus taeda and pinus coulteri, from onion root tips and from chicken erythrocytes. (liverpool.ac.uk)
  • My research examines the evolution of genetic and functional diversity in aquatic eukaryotic microbes (i.e. protists). (exeter.ac.uk)
  • In conclusion it was possible to define a preliminary scenario of the different effects that CB litter can cause to different key organisms in aquatic environments, underlining the importace of monitoring of this "emerging pollutant" in both internal and coastal areas. (easychair.org)
  • 0000005348 00000 n v� Fish 2 and Girardia tigrina, showed dorsal epidermis structures such as excretory pores, mucus formation, little presence of hair cells, rhabdites and secretory droplets (Figs … All classes of vertebrates have their representatives leading to partial or total aquatic […] Requisites of Primary Aquatic Adap-tation: The adaptation of fishes to a watery medium is perfect. (poliglota.net)
  • Many organisms in nature have evolved mechanisms to tolerate severe hypoxia or ischemia, including the hibernation-capable Arctic ground squirrel (AGS). (elifesciences.org)
  • But to survive such extreme low temperatures, the bodies of these animals have made some special adaptations: sugars that act like antifreeze, and processes for keeping ice outside their cells to protect their tissues. (sciencefriday.com)
  • Cells are responsible for carrying out all the necessary processes for an organism to survive and reproduce. (proprofs.com)
  • We conclude by recognising that although protozoa may in some cases not completely mimic tissue- or whole-animal-level processes, they are extremely flexible and their use should be embraced. (exeter.ac.uk)
  • Primarily, the aim of anti-cell death in animals is to describe the processes of autophagy and apoptosis, while necrosis is the mechanism for defining the uncontrollable or chaotic mode of death. (essaywriter.org)
  • Autotrophics are living organism which synthesis their own food, by taking simple inorganic substances such as carbon dioxide, ammonia, water, etc. (rbsesolutions.com)
  • 0 ml with water R. PLAP-labeled DA cells were studied with the light and electron microscopes and, after enzymatic digestion and mechanical trituration of the retina, patch clamped for single-cell RT-PCR studies of gene expression or for electrophysiological experiments (12,16,17). (forextrading-madeeasy.com)
  • So they have a series of physiological responses that allow them to survive being frozen. (sciencefriday.com)
  • Over the last three decades, an increasing interest in how climate change will affect life on earth has motivated many comparative physiologists to focus their research on the effects of Anthropogenic drivers (mainly represented by climate change and pollution) on the physiological performance of their study organisms in order to identify critical thresholds and tipping points for their sustainable existence or mere survival. (easychair.org)
  • Organisms have sensory receptors that detect these stimuli and trigger a response, which can be a physical movement, a change in behavior, or a physiological reaction. (proprofs.com)
  • The cell is the smallest functional and structural organism's unit. (vedantu.com)
  • It is the smallest living entity found in living organisms. (practically.com)
  • The Cell is the smallest living unit of life. (practically.com)
  • Living things are composed of cells, which are the basic structural and functional units of life. (proprofs.com)
  • What is the basic structural and functional unit of life? (proprofs.com)
  • Glioblastomas are intrinsic brain tumors believed to originate from neuroglial stem or progenitor cells. (frontiersin.org)
  • Changes in the redox state of cells affect proteins, lipids, and nucleic acids in different ways. (hindawi.com)
  • We know that all organisms are made of small microscopic units known as cells. (vedantu.com)
  • Less serious" effects are those that are not expected to cause significant dysfunction or death, or those whose significance to the organism is not entirely clear. (cdc.gov)
  • Metabolically active cells, neutrophils, and macrophages from the immune system produce high levels of ROS. (hindawi.com)
  • The centre of the tuberculous granuloma may undergo caseous necrosis surrounded by activated macrophages, T-cells and fibroblasts. (ersjournals.com)
  • In plants, cell death is a fundamental process, as it plays the roles of controlling the elimination of cells during plant development and defense in the form of hypersensitive response. (essaywriter.org)
  • This characteristic allows living organisms to adapt and survive in their surroundings. (proprofs.com)
  • download первая выставка российскаго народнаго: The spironolactone of directions or years toward or especially from a mechanism in solution to its tissue blood. (ajw-service.de)
  • often all CHF Annals survive diagnostic signs primarily. (ajw-service.de)
  • The main aim of this paper is to review the pathways that lead to cell death in plants with a purpose of identifying the anti-cell death genes. (essaywriter.org)
  • In this review, we examine aging as a process dependent on specific changes in molecular pathways within multiple lung cell populations. (karger.com)
  • Cancer cells demand high energy production to sustain their pathological increase in proliferation rate. (hindawi.com)
  • For childhood neoplasms, it is safe to assume that cancer is the product of degeneration in a neoplastic sense of tissues undergoing very rapid proliferation and differentiation, in which proliferative and differentiative programs are being disturbed by increasingly early (maternal-fetal) exposure to a growing number of environmental stressors and pollutants. (frontiersin.org)
  • This cycle occurs highly the bodies of a congestive massage of lungs induced by an testing in failure Glands functioning the action's level to high Cell. (ajw-service.de)
  • They share what we're learning about how insects and amphibians survive harsh temperatures, and what frostbite and dehydration have in common. (sciencefriday.com)
  • 2. Insects generally survive mild winters better than harsh ones. (pdfroom.com)
  • Current knowledge about the identity and function of these stem cell compartments has been largely drawn from a variety of transgenic and spontaneously mutated mouse models that are characterized by rapid rates of aging or have been used to examine regeneration from injury in the context of natural or accelerated aging. (karger.com)
  • In this review, we will present current data on lung aging and lung regeneration, with specific attention paid to stem cell-driven regeneration within the context of aging. (karger.com)
  • Organic extracellular matrix production as a means of cell-cell and cell-substrate adhesion has been extensively studied. (nature.com)
  • An organism that acts as a decomposer by absorbing nutrients from dead organic matter. (web.id)
  • The great diversity of life today evolved from less-diverse ancestral organisms over billions of years. (pdfroom.com)
  • It is timely to evaluate the role of protozoa as model organisms given their diversity, abundance and versatility as well as the economic and ethical pressures placed on animal-based experimentation. (exeter.ac.uk)
  • Examples involve a wide diversity of organisms and approaches, involving the use of a variety of statistical tools. (trentu.ca)
  • Examining the genetic code of these resilient cells revealed that Arctic ground squirrels may have a variant form of a protein called ATP5G1. (elifesciences.org)
  • Despite this, there are adaptive characteristics and distinctive features that that distinguish the lifestyle of plants from those of animals, hence the adoption of only distantly related components in revealing the genetic regulations of plant cell death. (essaywriter.org)
  • When an animal eats food, its body breaks down the nutrients in the food to provide energy for all its cells and tissues. (amphipedia.com)
  • If you've ever wondered how a sea slug can survive without having to find food, the answer lies in its unique ability to store energy. (amphipedia.com)
  • The sea slug Elysia timida , however, can steal whole chloroplasts from the cells of the algae it consumes: the stolen structures then become part of the cells in the gut of the slug, allowing the animal to gain energy from sunlight. (elifesciences.org)
  • The cell needs some energy to perform these functions. (vedantu.com)
  • The food has stored energy released at the time of respiration. (vedantu.com)
  • They get energy via anaerobic respiration. (vedantu.com)
  • Energy is required by all the living organisms for growth and development. (rbsesolutions.com)
  • Nutrition is the whole process by which an organism utilize its food to produce energy, for growth, development and maintenance. (rbsesolutions.com)
  • This cell then varieties dedicated stem cells that may form specific kinds of blood cells. (ehd.org)
  • Typically, adventitious rooting is preceded by an initial wound-healing response in cells at the base of stem cuttings. (globalsciencebooks.info)
  • Lung failure due to aging can be traced to loss of lung stem cell regenerative capacity within the distinctive stem cell niches found within each compartment of the lung. (karger.com)
  • Stem cells are characterized by their ability to undergo self-renewal to maintain stem cell reserves, and, when required, to produce new, terminally differentiated cells. (karger.com)
  • During aging, a decline in organ function can be traced to a loss of stem cell function due to increased cell turnover, depletion of stem cells, and alterations to the stem cell niche. (karger.com)
  • In cancer cells, ROS production is mainly due to overexpression of the NADPH oxidase [ 3 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • gradient gel electrophoretic methods enabled a distinction to be made between coniferyl alcohol oxidase (cao) of lignifying cell walls and a pi approximately 9 pine 'laccase' recently implicated in lignification (science 1993 260, 672). (liverpool.ac.uk)
  • Photosyhthesisers: The living organisms which synthesis their own food, by taking carbon dioxide from atmosphere and water from the soil, in presence of sunlight and chlorophyll on the form of carbohydrates are called photosynthesisers. (rbsesolutions.com)
  • These cells also develop specific strategies to increase ROS resistance and to express the enzymatic activities necessary for ROS detoxification. (hindawi.com)
  • They are the building blocks of all living organisms and are responsible for carrying out specific functions within the body. (proprofs.com)
  • In fact, the shape and size of the cell is related to the specific functions they perform. (practically.com)
  • Ectopic expression in mouse cells and CRISPR/Cas9 base editing of endogenous AGS loci revealed causal roles of one AGS-specific amino acid substitution in mediating cytoprotection by AGS ATP5G1. (elifesciences.org)
  • Each of the adaptations will form cerebral drugs with the specific tissues and with the radioactive trends. (ajw-service.de)
  • Strain-specific functional and numerical responses are required to evaluate impacts on predator-prey dynamics. (exeter.ac.uk)
  • The results highlight the importance of biofilm formation and the presence of specific resistance mechanisms in the ability of microorganisms to survive and thrive under adverse conditions. (bvsalud.org)
  • Additionally, this discussion expands its mandate by analyzing the function and regulation of anti-cell death in plant development. (essaywriter.org)
  • Healthy lung tissue is elastic and springy, so, our muscles need to work to expand our chest and draw air into the lungs. (vedantu.com)
  • Sacoglossan sea slugs are able to maintain functional chloroplasts inside their own cells, and mechanisms that allow preservation of the chloroplasts are unknown. (elifesciences.org)
  • Air has to be pumped from the environment into the alveoli or atria by the process of breathing which involves the muscles of respiration. (wikipedia.org)
  • While much work has focused on the failure of epithelial cell populations as a key component of the aging process, additional studies have shown that aging, as a global phenomenon in the lung, also impacts resident endothelial, mesenchymal, and immune cell populations. (karger.com)
  • Arctic ground squirrels (AGS, Urocitellus parryii ) survive harsh winter environmental conditions through hibernation. (elifesciences.org)
  • The plural form of stimulus is stimuli, indicating that there can be multiple stimuli that elicit a response from an organism. (proprofs.com)
  • Drug Resistance: hospitalized or associated term of an objective, serum or respiration to the probed form of a gap or failure. (siriuspixels.com)
  • SAR-koh-PLAZ-mik reh-TIK-yoo-lum) A modified form of endoplasmic reticulum in striated muscle cells that stores calcium used to trigger contraction during stimulation. (web.id)
  • To assess the possible roles of biomineralization in biofilm development, we grew wild-type B. subtilis cells on media in the presence or absence of calcium acetate as a calcium source. (nature.com)
  • Formulated to offer a comprehensive series of nutritional components Allstar from ForeFront Equine includes a sequence of highly functional nutrients to provide complete support for your equine athlete. (gettyequinenutrition.com)
  • We also should know, there are a few organisms like yeast that can survive in the absence of air. (vedantu.com)
  • The dominant discovery in these experiments indicates that there is a heterologous expression of certain genes in plants that can regulate cell death. (essaywriter.org)
  • v) Guard cells regulate the opening and closing of stomata. (icsehelp.com)
  • We first define the term model organism and then examine through examples why protozoa make good models. (exeter.ac.uk)
  • used to breed domestic dogsto reproduce by cell division, spore formation, fission, or budding without the union of individuals or gametesa lung disorder characterized by wheezing, coughing and shortness of breath caused by constriction of airways a lack of symmetrythe narrowing of the walls of the arteries caused by deposits of fatty substances especially cholesterolthe mixture of gases that surrounds the Earth or some other celestial body. (pdfdrug.com)