Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The addition of what is lacking; specifically, in medicine, the filling up of a deficiency caused by loss of substance, as in wounds.
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- noun The
replenishment of adeficiency - noun biochemistry An intermediate
enzyme reaction that replaces a depleted vital compound
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Examples
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Harvey thinks that repletio is an error of the translation reading anaplerosis for anaperosis.
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001
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To test the hypothesis that anaplerosis is important for insulin secretion, we lowered the activity of pyruvate carboxylase (PC), the major enzyme of anaplerosis in the beta cell.
Journal of Biological Chemistry current issue N. M. Hasan 2008
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The results confirm the central importance of PC and anaplerosis to generate metabolites from glucose that support insulin secretion and even suggest PC is important for insulin secretion stimulated by noncarbohydrate insulin secretagogues.
Journal of Biological Chemistry current issue N. M. Hasan 2008
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