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Definition: Glycogen |
GlycogenNoun1. The form in which carbohydrate are stored; stored primarily in the liver and broken down into glucose when needed by the body. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Glycogen \Gly"co*gen\, noun. [Greek expression sweet -gen: compare to the French expression glycog[`e]ne.]. (references) |
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Chemistry | A poly-saccharide of high molecular weight found in most of the tissues of the body, especially those of the liver and muscular tissue. Source: European Union. (references) |
Health | A sugar stored in the liver and muscles. It releases glucose into the blood when cells need it for energy. Glycogen is the chief source of stored fuel in the body. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Glycogen is the principal storage form of glucose in animal cells. In humans, the most glycogen is found in the liver, whereas muscles only contain a relatively low amount of glycogen. In addition, small amounts of glycogen is found in certain glial cells in the brain.
Sometimes called 'animal starch'. It is stored in liver and muscle cells and can be converted to glucose if needed. Under certain conditions, between meals for instance, liver glycogen is an important source of blood glucose. Muscle cell glycogen appears to be only for local use. Glycogen is the primary glucose (energy) storage mechanism.
Glycogen is a glucose polymer. It is generated from glucose by the enzyme glycogen synthase. Its breakdown into glucose, called glycogenolysis, is mediated by the enzyme glycogen phosphorylase.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Glycogen."
Synonym: GlycogenSynonym: animal starch (n). (additional references) |
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 | Shows photo of Dr. George Bancroft and other woman scientist working in Metabolism Branch Laboratory. Dr. Bancroft studies how cancer cells transform glycogen into lactic acid. (1931). Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | Ewing's sarcoma that metastasized to the pleural fluid. Stained PAS for glycogen. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |
 | Entamoeba histolytica cyst, mononucleated, with glycogen mass. Focus on glycogen mass. Parasite, ameba. Credit: CDC. | ||
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Health | Chlamydia species are gram-negative and produce glycogen. (references) | |
Muscles also store glycogen that can be converted to glucose. (references) | ||
The liver may fail to release stored glycogen into the blood, triggering hypoglycemia. (references) | ||
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| "Glycogen" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 96.88% of the time. "Glycogen" is used about 32 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 96.88% | 31 | 62,296 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.13% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 32 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "glycogen": Glycogen Debranching Enzyme System ♦ Glycogen Storage Disease ♦ Glycogen Storage Disease Type I ♦ Glycogen Storage Disease Type II ♦ Glycogen Storage Disease Type III ♦ Glycogen Storage Disease Type IV ♦ Glycogen Storage Disease Type V ♦ Glycogen Storage Disease Type VI ♦ Glycogen Storage Disease Type VII ♦ Glycogen Storage Disease Type VIII ♦ Glycogen Storage Diseases ♦ Glycogen Synthase ♦ Liver Glycogen. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "glycogen": Glycogen-Synthase-D, Glycogen-Synthase-D Phosphatase. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
glycogen | 65 |
glycogen storage disease | 42 |
glycogen index | 6 |
betaine glycogen | 3 |
glycogen structure | 3 |
glycogen storage | 2 |
glycogen storage disorder | 2 |
glycogen metabolism | 2 |
glycogen muscle | 2 |
glycogen storage disease type ii | 2 |
glycogen injection | 2 |
glycogen synthesis | 2 |
breakdown glycogen | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "glycogen"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 糖朊. (various references) | |
Danish | glykogen, glycogen (animal starch), animalsk stivelse (animal starch). (various references) | |
Dutch | glycogeen (animal starch), dierlijk zetmeel (animal starch). (various references) | |
Finnish | glykogeeni, eläintärkkelys. (various references) | |
French | glycogène, glucogène, dextrine animale, amidon animal. (various references) | |
German | Glykogen (animal starch), tierische Stärke (animal starch), Leberstärke (animal starch). (various references) | |
Greek | γλυκογόνο (animal starch). (various references) | |
Italian | glicogeno (animal starch), amido animale (animal starch). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | グリオキシル酸回路 (glissade, glycerin, glycerol, glycine, glyoxylate cycle, grease, Greenwich, grid, gridding, grinding against, grip, rubbing against and turn). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | グリコーゲン . (various references) | |
Korean | 글리코겐. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ycogenglay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | glicogénio (animal starch), glicógeno, amido natural (animal starch, native starch). (various references) | |
Romanian | glicogen. (various references) | |
Russian | гликоген. (various references) | |
Spanish | glucógeno, glicógeno (animal starch), almidón animal (animal starch). (various references) | |
Swedish | glykogen. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | глікоген. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "glycogen": glycogeneses, glycogenesis, glycogenolyses, glycogenolysis, glycogenolytic, glycogens. (additional references) | |
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"Glycogen" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aglycone, Clydogan, glycagon, glyocogen, Goyogana, lycopene, Lycorea. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "glycogen" (pronounced glī"kujun) |
| 4 | -u j u n | antigen, carcinogen, estrogen, halogen, hydrogen, nitrogen, origin, oxygen, pathogen, plasminogen. |
| 3 | -j u n | allergen, bludgeon, burgeon, collegian, contagion, curmudgeon, dudgeon, dungeon, engine, gudgeon, imagine, legion, margin, neurosurgeon, pigeon, region, religion, smidgen, sturgeon, surgeon, trudgen, virgin. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-g-g-l-n-o-y" | |
-2 letters: cloggy, legong. | |
-3 letters: clone, coney, conge, leggy, loggy, longe. | |
-4 letters: clog, clon, cloy, cole, coly, cone, cony, eggy, enol, gleg, glen, gley, gone, gong, leno, loge, logy, lone, long, noel, nogg, ogle, once, only, yegg. | |
-5 letters: cel, cog, col, con, coy, egg, ego, eng, eon, gel, gen, gey, goy, leg, ley, log, lye, nog. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-g-g-l-n-o-y" | |
+1 letter: glycogens. | |
+2 letters: gynecology. | |
+3 letters: gynaecology, gynecologic. | |
+4 letters: glycogeneses, glycogenesis, gynecologies, gynecologist. | |
+5 letters: encouragingly, geochronology, gynaecologies, gynecological, gynecologists. | |
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