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metabolism

[muh-tab-uh-liz-uhm] / məˈtæb əˌlɪz əm /


NOUN
digestion
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This offset a weaker-than-expected performance at AstraZeneca’s cardiovascular, renal and metabolism business, the analysts add.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

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

Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science have identified a protein called MTCH2, nicknamed "Mitch," that plays an important role in controlling metabolism.

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

This material is processed by a superefficient metabolism, stripped of any useful minerals and...ejected at the other end, as it were.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer

These molecules are generated in part because tumor cells have highly active metabolisms.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026

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

"Considering that the vast majority of reductases encoded by gut bacteria remain functionally uncharacterized, identified metabolisms may only scratch the surface of interactions between respiratory reductases and the gut metabolome," the study authors wrote.

From Salon ● Jan. 5, 2024

Invariably, on other planets, that has meant higher metabolisms in the fauna.

From The Test Colony by Winston K. Marks


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