Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive & transitive verb To undergo or cause to undergo catabolism.
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- verb intransitive to
undergo catabolism - verb transitive to cause a substance to undergo catabolism
- verb transitive to produce a substance using catabolism
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- verb subject to catabolism
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Examples
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Dr Eades wrote, “You must keep protein intake up during low-carb dieting so that you have more than enough protein available for gluconeogenesis without having to catabolize your muscle mass.”
The votes are in: Dissect it is! | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2007
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So maintaining an adequate protein intake ensures that you have plenty of substrate for gluconeogenesis without having to catabolize muscle mass to make sugar.
Metabolism and ketosis | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2007
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You must keep protein intake up during low-carb dieting so that you have more than enough protein available for gluconeogenesis without having to catabolize your muscle mass.
The votes are in: Dissect it is! | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2007
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You must keep protein intake up during low-carb dieting so that you have more than enough protein available for gluconeogenesis without having to catabolize your muscle mass.
The votes are in: Dissect it is! | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2007
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It would seem therefore that hypophysectomy diminishes the capacity of the organism to catabolize body protein and to form glucose from this protein.
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That level of exercise requires a lot of protein or your body will be forced to catabolize it's own lean tissue.
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T. gondii enzymes with tryptophan, but the enzymes were able to catabolize tyrosine and phenylalanine.
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Thus the enzymes catabolize phenylalanine to tyrosine and tyrosine to
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Accordingly, adding SSA to the culture medium could artificially increase the content of SSA in mutant plants that are already unable to catabolize this toxic metabolite, resulting in even more dramatic effects and increased oxidative stress.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Frank Ludewig et al. 2008
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Accordingly, adding SSA to the culture medium could artificially increase the content of SSA in mutant plants that are already unable to catabolize this toxic metabolite, resulting in even more dramatic effects and increased oxidative stress.
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