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19 Oct 2011 10:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mayoraaseiSo I'm reading up a bit about gout and the different mechanisms by which colchicine and allopurinol treat gout (yes, yes, I know I have no more exams and it's a wonder I don't know these things but somehow managed to pass anyway).
Allopurinol is easy enough to understand, but when I got to colchicine, it said this, "At micromolar concentrations, it suppresses monosodium urate crystal-induced NACHT-LRR-PYD-containing protein-3 (NALP3) inflammasome-driven caspase-1 activation"
I think my brain died somewhere after the word "crystal".
*Goes to sleep*
BTW Japanese film festival tickets go up tomorrow. I'm gonna order early in case Gantz sells out, so lemme know, people!
Allopurinol is easy enough to understand, but when I got to colchicine, it said this, "At micromolar concentrations, it suppresses monosodium urate crystal-induced NACHT-LRR-PYD-containing protein-3 (NALP3) inflammasome-driven caspase-1 activation"
I think my brain died somewhere after the word "crystal".
*Goes to sleep*
BTW Japanese film festival tickets go up tomorrow. I'm gonna order early in case Gantz sells out, so lemme know, people!
