glycogenolysis love

Definitions

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  • noun The biochemical breakdown of glycogen to glucose.

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  • noun biochemistry The production of glucose-1-phosphate by splitting a glucose monomer from glycogen using inorganic phosphate

Etymologies

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glycogen + -o- + -lysis

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Examples

  • In 1936, extending their quantitative analytical methods to hexose monophosphates in glycogenolysis, they discovered a new intermediate, glucose-1-phosphate, the Cori ester.

    Gerty Theresa Cori. 2009

  • When freezing is detected, a signal is transmitted to the liver where glycogenolysis, the conversion of glycogen to glucose, begins in earnest.

    Archive 2004-09-01 2004

  • The year before I arrived they had discovered cyclic AMP as a "second messenger" of epinephrine - and glucagon-mediated effects on glycogenolysis in liver preparations.

    Ferid Murad - Autobiography 1999

  • Extracts of this lobe also influence the general metabolism of the carbohydrates by accelerating the process of glycogenolysis in the liver.

    XI. Splanchnology. 4d. The Hypophysis Cerebri 1918

  • Glucose-dependent tissues (ie, red blood cells, retina, lens, and renal medulla) receive glucose through gluconeogenesis and glycogenolysis.

    Discussion Forum - TuDiabetes 2010

  • "This observation is reminiscent of 'hepatic autoregulation' by which endogenous glucose production remains unchanged in the setting of altered gluconeogenesis or glycogenolysis because the two pathways tend to compensate for each other," the authors report.

    Scientific Blogging 2008

  • Glucagon (pancreas) - promotes hyperglycemia by stimulating hepatic glycogenolysis and gluconeogenesis - promotes lypolysis and ketogenesis 6.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2008

  •  Causes peripheral vasoconstriction  Preserves intravascular volume by absorbing solute-free water in the distal tubules  Causes hepatic glycogenolysis

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2008

  • "This observation is reminiscent of 'hepatic autoregulation' by which endogenous glucose production remains unchanged in the setting of altered gluconeogenesis or glycogenolysis because the two pathways tend to compensate for each other," the authors report.

    Diabetes News from dLife.com 2008

  • "This observation is reminiscent of 'hepatic autoregulation' by which endogenous glucose production remains unchanged in the setting of altered gluconeogenesis or glycogenolysis because the two pathways tend to compensate for each other," the authors report.

    Diabetes News from dLife.com 2008

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