Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A salt or an ester of pyruvic acid.
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- noun chemistry Any
salt orester ofpyruvic acid .
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The expression of an enzyme known as pyruvate kinase is reduced in immune cells in pregnant women compared to non-pregnant women, according to Howard R.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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The expression of an enzyme known as pyruvate kinase is reduced in immune cells in pregnant women compared to non-pregnant women, according to Howard R.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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The expression of an enzyme known as pyruvate kinase is reduced in immune cells in pregnant women compared to non-pregnant women, according to Howard R.
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The expression of an enzyme known as pyruvate kinase is reduced in immune cells in pregnant women compared to non-pregnant women, according to Dr. Howard R.
Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 2010
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Lipoic acid is metabolized to its active form, include the Mitochondrial Research Society (Buffalo, diHydrolipoic acid (DHLA) inside the mitochondrion N.Y.), the Mitochondrial Physiology Network itself by the enzyme known as pyruvate dehydrogenase (Innsbruck, Austria), and the United Mitochondrial complex (PDH).
Recently Uploaded Slideshows cureself 2010
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The expression of an enzyme known as pyruvate kinase is reduced in immune cells in pregnant women compared to non-pregnant women, according to Howard R.
innovations-report 2010
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To do that, they use an enzyme called pyruvate kinase M2 allows the sugar breakdown process to be used even though it is normally only activated in the absence of oxygen.
Winnipeg Sun 2009
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The relevance to my analysis in The Edge of Evolution is that, like other mutations that help with malaria, these mutations, too, are ones which degrade the function of a normally very useful protein, called pyruvate kinase.
Scientists' Responses Solicited James F. McGrath 2008
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Vander Heiden is now studying one of the key enzymes involved in cancer cells 'metabolic pathways, known as pyruvate kinase M2, with an eye toward developing drugs that could alter its activity and effectively starve cancer cells of the materials they need to grow and reproduce.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Mitochondria use a chemical formed from the digestion of sugar and fats, called pyruvate, to make another substance called ATP
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