glycogen
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Glycogen is a polymeric form of glucose and is stored in the liver and skeletal muscle cells.
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Figure 7.18 Glycogen from the liver and muscles, hydrolyzed into glucose-1-phosphate, together with fats and proteins, can feed into the catabolic pathways for carbohydrates.
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Glycogen is made and stored in both liver and muscle.
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Glycogen is more highly branched than starch and is found in plants.
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Glycogen, or "animal starch," is one of the most widely distributed reserve foods of the animal body; in fact, it is the only known form of carbohydrate-reserve in animal tissues.
From The Chemistry of Plant Life by Thatcher, Roscoe Wilfred
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