Glycogen is the stored form of a simplesugar called glucose. Your body gets glucose from the food you eat (mostly from carbohydrates) and uses it as fuel for your cells. If you have extra glucose in your blood, your body stores it as glycogen for later use. The glycogen compound itself ...
What type of organic compound is an enzyme? Glycine is what type of monomer? Why do proteins have disulfide bonds? What is elongation in protein synthesis? Which amino acid does not have stereochemistry? What is trypsin? What is the monomer for nucleic acids?
What is glycogen? Which type of carbohydrates provides roughage and helps in the movement of the bowel? Briefly discuss where carbohydrates come from and how they are formed in nature. What are macronutrients? Give some examples. (a) When are carbohydrates good for us? What are good versus ba...
Matthew Kadey, M.S. R.D. is a Canada-based registered dietitian and nutrition journalist with two decades of experience in reporting about food and nutrition for dozens of print and online publications. Kadey is the author of Rocket Fuel: Power-Packed Food for Sports + Adventure. He is also...
Glucagon is a peptide of 29 amino acids with a variety of biological actions including, but not limited to, glucose homeostasis. It could stimulate glycogenolysis and gluconeogenesis and thus act in opposition to the glucose-lowering effects of insulin. Its physiological effects are very interesting...
The Wnt/β-catenin signaling is involved in cartilage, osteogenesis, muscle and adipogenesis. In addition, it plays a key role in the differentiation of the MSC lineage, affecting various aspects of skeletal development. For example, reduced expression of Lrp5 and Lrp6 in compound mutant mice ...
After all the energy needed is delivered to the body's cells, any leftover glucose needs to be stored away. It can't be stored in its original form, it needs to be transformed into a compound called glycogen. Glycogen then is built into the liver and the muscles as a backup source ...
Restriction of dietary methionine (DM) regimen is gaining more interest in the area of metabolic health as it has emerge as a compound providing strong protection against diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular, some type of cancers and other age related complications such as Neurodegenerative disorders. How...
Some of the liver's functions include: Filtering your blood. During this filtering, the liver removes toxins, such as alcohol, chemicals and drugs, from the body. Processing blood sugar, known as glucose. The liver removes excess blood sugar and can turn it into glycogen, which is the sto...
What is the hydrocarbon backbone, and what does it do in the glucose-to-glycogen process? What types of foods supply sugar, starch, proteins and lipids? How is glucose a molecule and not a compound? Is glucose a part of adenosine triphosphate? What are the end products of glucose catabolis...