Sentence examples for metabolism from inspiring English sources

In a paper in Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism they argue that insulin resistance is another side-effect of metabolic syndrome whose cause is lipid molecules poisoning tissues in which they are not supposed to be present in large quantities.

This results in ketones replacing glucose as an alternative fuel – and this transition from glucose to fat metabolism reduces the systemic inflammation that can underlie epilepsy and many other diseases.

Not only do they live through storms of hurricane-force winds in temperatures as low as -70 degrees Celsius, but also they are thought to enter a sleep-like state for much of their winter, their metabolism slowing to a chug so that they can survive the cold months.One of the world's largest breeding grounds of these penguins is just 20km from Halley.

Silicon Valley's technological metabolism is powered by similar competitive co-operation.When new firms or workers create more value for other residents than they add to the costs of congestion, a city enjoys what economists call "increasing returns to scale": a metropolis becomes more attractive and productive as it grows.

And don't forget biotin, essential for metabolism.

To date, he has created computational models of the metabolism of a single-celled bug called Mycobacterium genitalium as well as human red-blood cells.

It has the people, resources and entrepreneurial metabolism to make it one of the world's 20 leading economies, reckons PwC, a consultancy.

(An essential amino acid is one that the human body cannot make for itself, so it must be provided either directly from food or by bacterial metabolism).

But Dr Seeley thinks an important part of the answer has now been found, for in Alzheimer's and four similar but rarer dementias the pattern of spread seems to match the networks of co-ordinated metabolism described by Dr Raichle.

Since then it has added other groups for predicting the absorption, metabolism and toxicity characteristics of new compounds.

PCSK9, which encodes an enzyme involved in cholesterol metabolism, is a target for the prevention of heart disease.