metabolic

Definitions

Examples

• Our bodies release certain metabolites—products of our metabolic activities.

• Finding the genetic basis for the animal’s metabolic feats could clarify the mitochondrial genome’s function, helping to find treatments for human metabolic diseases.

• Basal metabolic rate is the minimum amount of calories required for basic functions at rest.

• In birds, metabolic rates played a massive role for birds, while isolating mechanisms like body hair or fat reserves had a prominent role for mammals.

• Adipose tissue is therefore important for good metabolic health.

• What if they were to measure body composition or hormone levels or metabolic rate?

• A “set point” would determine weight by regulating metabolic activity, hunger and even the desire to do exercise.

• After all, here we are, in the middle of a global obesity crisis; and there they are running a metabolic lab on television.

• They are much more likely to have metabolic syndrome—a condition that puts you at high risk for diabetes and heart disease.

• Eventually, he developed metabolic syndrome—a condition that presages diabetes and heart disease.

• It stimulates metabolic activity of tissue cells and secures more complete oxidation of energy-yielding elements.

• Not as our bodies do the stars need continual metabolic replacing food.

• (b) The medium became toxic from the accumulation of metabolic products.

• A still more important difference is that the metabolic force is peculiar to the cell.

• Now, an indispensable condition of the ripening of the ovum in the female organism is that the metabolic process shall be normal.