glycogen
IPA: gɫˈaɪkʌdʒɪn
noun
- (biochemistry) A polysaccharide that is the main form of carbohydrate storage in animals; converted to glucose as needed.
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Examples of "glycogen" in Sentences
- Does anyone remember the value for glycogen
- The rest is stored as glycogen in the liver and muscles.
- Is glycogen stored in the vacuoles of the human muscle cells
- Glycogen phosphorylase is the primary enzyme of glycogen breakdown.
- Muscles also keep a storage form of glucose in the form of glycogen.
- What I am curious about is the glycogen storage in the muscle tissues.
- Glycogen is a mixture of glucose and water mainly stored in the muscles.
- Hence glycogen is converted to glucose which can enter the blood stream.
- The amount of glycogen in muscle and kidneys may excel in that of others.
- Myophosphorylase is the form of the glycogen phosphorylase found in muscle.
- It is necessary to refill the glycogen stores in the skeletal muscles and liver.
- The same process may, however, also proceed in the opposite direction, so that glycogen is formed from the Cori ester.
- Further work showed that uridine diphosphate glucose is involved in glycogen synthesis and adenosine diphosphate glucose in that of starch.
- They are fueled by a small store of a carbohydrate called glycogen, which is already in the fibers, and is rapidly converted into energy by enzymes right in the cell fluids.
- Later it was shown, in collaboration with Collip, that other symptoms of diabetes, namely the ketonuria and the absence of glycogen from the liver, were favourably influenced by the extracts and, with Hepburn, that the respiratory quotient became raised.
- These results had several important ramifications: they explained the course of heat production measured by Hill; and they confirmed and extended a famous theory of Pasteur's that less glycogen is consumed in muscle metabolism in the presence of oxygen than in its absence.
- Once you use up all of your available glucose during the digestive phase of metabolism (your body stores only about 300 calories in the short-term glycogen reservoir), it taps a long-term reservoir: fatty tissue in the form of triglycerides (molecules that include a carbohydrate-containing glycerol).
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