Inside the membrane, a salty cytoplasm takes up most of the cell volume. All cells possess DNA, the hereditary material of genes, and RNA, containing the information necessary to build various proteins such as enzymes, the cell's primary machinery. There are also other kinds of biomolecules in cells.
Statins could cause liver and kidney problems, research shows. Statins could cause liver and kidney problems, research shows. Cholesterol-lowering drugs taken by millions of Britons could cause liver, kidney, muscle and eye problems, research out today suggests. Statins are used to treat people with high cholesterol and to cut the chances of heart disease or stroke in those at high risk, such as diabetics and people with angina.
Two rare, but potentially serious, side effects that can occur are liver and muscle damage, with symptoms of nausea, upper right abdominal pain and jaundice -- yellowing of the skin and eyes -- or muscle pain and weakness.amage to the liver by statin drugs causes an increased release of liver enzymes into the circulation, most commonly the enzymes aspartate aminotransferase or alanine aminotransferase, according to Drs.