What do pumpkin guts look like under the microscope🧐🔬||#shorts

I made a time laps (I sped up the videos 6 times) so we could see how dynamic the inside of the cells are! When magnified 400 to 600 times, you can see mitochondria partying around and strands of cytoplasm moving, transporting small molecules and proteins around, it's fascinating

The flowing movement of the cytoplasm inside a cell is called cytoplasmic streaming, or cyclosis, and it's driven by the skeleton of the cell called the cytoskeleton. This skeleton is pretty complex, it's partially made of actin filaments and myosin motor proteins, which are also found in our cells, especially muscle cells! They allow a rapid movement of organelles (the organs of the cell), nutrients, metabolites and other molecules throughout the cell. Without this mechanism, it would take forever for the materials to go from point A to point B by simple diffusion, the cell wouldn't be able to adapt to its needs and wouldn't survive☹️

The big round structure inside the cells is the nucleus that contains DNA while most of the little dots moving inside the cytoplasm are mitochondria (where the real power's at my dudes)💥

In the video you can also see the beautiful orange pigments present in pumpkin cells! These fruits from the Curcubita genus are filled with carotenoids which give them a coloration ranging between yellow and red. Carotenoids are also found in carrots, mangos, tomatoes, corn, papayas and
guavas, to name a few. Carotenoids found in fruits and vegetables can be transformed into vitamin A by our body and it also lowers the risks of several health issues like cardiovascular diseases, cataracts and certain types of skin cancers! There are also lots of other biologically active compounds in pumpkins like cryptoxanthin, lutein, polysaccharides, phytosterols, phenolic acids, unsaturated fatty acids and proteins. It has been shown that pumpkin extracts from different parts of the plant have anti-diabetic, antibacterial, hypocholesterolemic, anticancer, anti bladder stone activity and many other beneficial properties!

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