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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
catabolize . - adjective biochemistry
modified bycatabolism
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Examples
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Cysteine - as a free amino acid - is potentially toxic and is spontaneously catabolized or destroyed in the gastrointestinal tract and blood plasma.
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Later on (1920) with several collaborators he made another important contribution to this series of problems by establishing the fact that when fat is catabolized for muscular work a loss of 11 % of the heat of combustion takes place, owing to the waste when fats are converted to carbohydrates.
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Ingested protein is catabolized in a greater proportion than in normal animals.
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These amino acids, being poorly catabolized, were higher in the circulation; this signalled the release of higher amounts of more insulin, possibly leading to a vicious cycle.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] Gareth Leng 2008
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