Health and biomedical informatics - Article Example

Administration of Antioxidants such as Vitamin E and Lipoic acid has been used to promote health in health care by eliminating reactive Oxygen and Nitrogen species but it is important to consider the binding properties of synthetic vitamin E. Some synthetic vitamin E does not bind to proteins making it difficult to transfer them across the membrane (Hunter 2008, p. 150). Doctors should therefore consider this aspect when prescribing synthetic vitamin E. The blood brain barrier is a membrane of tightly packed cells that restricts the passage of some substances from the blood to the brain cells while allowing the passage of essential substances required for metabolism.

The permeation of the blood brain barrier to a particular drug is of importance during drug administration. For example, fact that antibiotics cannot penetrate the blood brain barrier makes the treatment of medical conditions such as meningitis a problem (Aschenbrenner 2009, p.44). According to Moore (2007, p.21), current approaches are geared towards the use of ADMET within genetic programming to predict the permeablity of the blood brain barrier. Amino acids are the building blocks of proteins which are the most essential and abundant molecules in the human body.

In human beings there are a total of twenty amino acids and their arrangement within a protein determines the function and nature of the protein. Amino acid therapy is currently being employed to replace drug therapy according to Pfeiifer’s Law. For instance, instead of using antidepressants drugs to increase the action of serotonin the amino acids Tryptophan or Tyrosine can be used to produce the same effects (Braverman 2003, 19). As outlined by Fukamizo (2011, 88), protein analysis can be conducted by a technique such as LC-MS combined with “database search algorithms.

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