metabolism
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The six peptides are BPC-157, Epitalon, KPV, MOTS-c, Semax, and TB-500, which are marketed for antiaging, boosting metabolism and improving memory, among other things.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
An international research team, which included Gross and Chourasia, investigated how MTCH2 influences metabolism in fat tissue.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026
These findings strengthened the evidence that MTCH2 influences whole-body metabolism, rather than simply changing the behavior of isolated cells.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026
The follow-up study, "MTCH2 modulates CPT1 activity to regulate lipid metabolism of adipocytes," was published in Nature Communications on October 3, 2025.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026
Together, these items weighed between 12 and 18 pounds, depending upon a man’s habits or rate of metabolism.
From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
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The results point to one major difference: species whose metabolisms were less able to cope with warmer, oxygen poor water suffered the highest extinction rates.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026
The higher temperatures promote algae growth by allowing their metabolisms to shift into overdrive.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2026
The authors also contest Herculano-Houzel's assumption that one can predict different dinosaurs' metabolisms, aging rates and other life history traits based on the existing data.
From Salon ● May 4, 2024
Starting in 2015, Hittinger's team sequenced the genomes and studied the metabolisms of nearly every known species of a group of yeasts distantly related to Saccharomyces cerevisiae, better known as baker's yeast.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 25, 2024
We know in fact almost nothing about these metabolisms.
From Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature by William James
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