metabolism
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Rather than affecting several organs throughout the body, it appears to act more selectively on a part of the brain responsible for controlling hunger and metabolism.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026
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
This offered a possible explanation for the unusual metabolism observed in the mice.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026
During glucose metabolism, those messages were repressed, and the RNAs for glucose-digesting enzymes became abundant.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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
But so extremely intricate is the chemistry of the substances involved that in no single case has the exact nature of the metabolisms wrought by these organs been fully made out.
From A History of Science — Volume 4 by Henry Smith Williams
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