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Definition of Gluconeogenesis
1. Noun. (biochemistry) The metabolic process in which glucose is formed, mostly in the liver, from non-carbohydrate precursors ¹
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Definition of Gluconeogenesis
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Literary usage of Gluconeogenesis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Physiology and biochemistry in modern medicene by John James Rickard Macleod (1922)
"gluconeogenesis in Normal Animals.—Although it has been clearly shown by the
indirect method that not only protein but its decomposition products as well, ..."
2. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"The chemistry of gluconeogenesis. VII. Concerning the fale of pyruvic acid in
... The chemistry of gluconeogenesis. VIII. The velocity of formation and ..."
3. Alcohols Effect on Organ Function edited by Dianne M. Welsh (1997)
"gluconeogenesis is the formation of new glucose from amino acids and ...
Furthermore, the metabolism of alcohol shuts down the process of gluconeogenesis; ..."
4. Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine (1903)
"We studied the BCG mouse model previously and found that endotoxin induced
hypoglycemia is largely due to defective gluconeogenesis (2). ..."
5. Biotechnology: Plant Nutrition: A Bibliography, January 1988-April 1993 by Janet Saunders (1994)
"The gene encodes phosphoenol- pyruvate carboxykinase (PEPCK), a key enzyme of
gluconeogenesis. The locus was isolated and sub- cloned from a genomic library ..."