Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A polysaccharide, (C6H10O5)n, that is the main form of carbohydrate storage in animals and occurs primarily in the liver and muscle tissue. It is readily converted to glucose as needed by the body to satisfy its energy needs.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A substance, C6H10O5, belonging to the carbohydrates.
- noun In mycology, same as
epiplasm .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Physiol. Chem.) A white, amorphous, tasteless substance resembling starch, soluble in water to an opalescent fluid. It is found abundantly in the liver of most animals, and in small quantity in other organs and tissues, particularly in the embryo. It is quickly changed into sugar when boiled with dilute sulphuric or hydrochloric acid, and also by the action of amylolytic ferments.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun biochemistry A
polysaccharide that is the main form ofcarbohydrate storage inanimals ;converted toglucose as needed.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun 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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Examples
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These results had several important ramifications: they explained the course of heat production measured by Hill; and they confirmed and extended a famous theory of Pasteur's that less glycogen is consumed in muscle metabolism in the presence of oxygen than in its absence.
Otto Meyerhof and the Physiology Institute: the Birth of Modern Biochemistry 2010
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Once you use up all of your available glucose during the digestive phase of metabolism (your body stores only about 300 calories in the short-term glycogen reservoir), it taps a long-term reservoir: fatty tissue in the form of triglycerides (molecules that include a carbohydrate-containing glycerol).
You: On a Diet Michael F. Roizen 2009
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Once you use up all of your available glucose during the digestive phase of metabolism (your body stores only about 300 calories in the short-term glycogen reservoir), it taps a long-term reservoir: fatty tissue in the form of triglycerides (molecules that include a carbohydrate-containing glycerol).
You: On a Diet Michael F. Roizen 2009
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Once you use up all of your available glucose during the digestive phase of metabolism (your body stores only about 300 calories in the short-term glycogen reservoir), it taps a long-term reservoir: fatty tissue in the form of triglycerides (molecules that include a carbohydrate-containing glycerol).
You: On a Diet Michael F. Roizen 2009
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They are fueled by a small store of a carbohydrate called glycogen, which is already in the fibers, and is rapidly converted into energy by enzymes right in the cell fluids.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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They are fueled by a small store of a carbohydrate called glycogen, which is already in the fibers, and is rapidly converted into energy by enzymes right in the cell fluids.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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Hence glycogen is converted to glucose which can enter the blood stream.
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Further work showed that uridine diphosphate glucose is involved in glycogen synthesis and adenosine diphosphate glucose in that of starch.
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Later it was shown, in collaboration with Collip, that other symptoms of diabetes, namely the ketonuria and the absence of glycogen from the liver, were favourably influenced by the extracts and, with Hepburn, that the respiratory quotient became raised.
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The same process may, however, also proceed in the opposite direction, so that glycogen is formed from the Cori ester.
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