glycogen

[ UK /ɡlˈa‍ɪkəd‍ʒən/ ]
[ US /ˈɡɫaɪkədʒɪn/ ]
NOUN
  1. one form in which body fuel is stored; stored primarily in the liver and broken down into glucose when needed by the body
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  • These calories are used to: replenish your glycogen (the way you store fuel in your muscles and liver) and oxygen stores. resynthesize phosphagen (ATP-PC). remove lactate. repair the wear and tear on your muscles caused by exercise (and these patch kits are made up of protein, which is costly in terms of calories). return your increased ventilation, blood circulation and body temperature to pre-exercise levels. hormones exercise induces (which also require protein). Chicagotribune.com -
  • The morphology of peripheral blood cells of adult Silurus meridionalis has been studied with both electron and light microscope, and, in addition, glycogen and peroxidase in cells were detected.
  • If breakfast is insufficient you come closer to the exhaustion of hepatic and muscular glycogen. The Sun
  • That's because people with Pompe disease, also called acid maltase deficiency, don't produce an enzyme that breaks down glycogen, a sugar stored in the body's muscle cells. TimesOnline: Home RSS feed
  • (glycogenic function of the liver, the consumption of glycogen through work of the muscles, the discovery of vascular nerves, the chemistry of the bile and the urine, theory of diabetes mellitus, assimiliation of sugar, atrophy of the pancreas, the power of the pancreatic juice to digest albumen, and the theory of animal heat). The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
  • The liver cells (the peculiar forms of which had been described by Purkinje, Henle, and Dutrochet about 1838) have the power to convert certain of the substances that come to them into a starchlike compound called glycogen, and to store this substance away till it is needed by the organism. A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume IV: Modern Development of the Chemical and Biological Sciences
  • Glycogen is found in a variety of animal tissues, particularly the liver.
  • Further work showed that uridine diphosphate glucose is involved in glycogen synthesis and adenosine diphosphate glucose in that of starch. Luis Leloir - Biography
  • The Carbohydrates comprise starch, sugar, gum, mucilage, pectose, glycogen, &c.; cellulose and woody fibre are carbohydrates, but are little capable of digestion. The Chemistry of Food and Nutrition
  • There were also esophageal glycogenic acanthosis and hyperplastic polyposis in the antrum accompanied by Helicobacter pylori-related gastritis.
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