What Are the Long-Term Health Consequences of Exposure to Air

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Essay

What are the long-term health consequences of exposure to air pollution?

Describe the process of signal amplification in cellular response to external signals.

Outline the role of calcium ion channels in signal transduction pathways.

Recognize the experimental approaches used to study signal transduction, including the investigation of transcription factor activation.

Explain how cells with specific receptors respond to chemical signals and the role of cellular structures like gap junctions and plasmodesmata in signal diffusion.

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Definitions:

Hemoglobin

A protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen from the lungs to the body's tissues and returns carbon dioxide from the tissues back to the lungs.

Dialysis Tubing

Dialysis tubing is a semi-permeable membrane used in separation techniques to simulate the process of dialysis, allowing the passage of certain molecules while restricting others.

Plasma Membrane

The biological membrane that separates the interior of all cells from the outside environment, controlling the movement of substances in and out of cells.

Osmosis

The movement of water molecules through a semi-permeable membrane from a region of lower solute concentration to a region of higher solute concentration.