metabolize
metabolize
Definition
me·tabo·lize (-līz′)
transitive verb, intransitive verb -·lized′, -·liz′·ing
to change by or subject to metabolism
me·tab′o·liz′·able adjective
metabolize
Usage Examples
Object
- glucose: Recall that there are two glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate per glucose metabolized.
- enzyme: This line of experiment came out of a fusion of bacterial genetics with the biochemical characterization of an inducible system of sugar metabolizing enzymes.
- drug: One species may metabolize a drug into toxic fragments whereas another may produce harmless by-products.
- sugar: In general terms this means that there is an inability to metabolize blood sugar correctly.
- protein: Vitamin B6 helps metabolize protein and break down oxalates helping your kidneys process and flush out the excess waste that causes kidney stones.
- food: Likewise, the reason you hate cauliflower and coconut may mean you inherited a deficiency in the enzyme that metabolizes these foods.
Subject
- liver: Under normal conditions, fat from the diet is metabolized by the liver and other tissues.
- cytochrome: Rather, it stated that hypericum " ...may significantly affect plasma concentrations of any drug that is metabolized by the cytochrome P-450 system.
- body: Absorption and Fate Neurontin is not metabolized by the body, i.e. , it does not produce active or inactive metabolites.
Adjective complement
- fat: This compound has been shown to dramatically increase the rate at which cells metabolize fat.
Modifying Another Word
- not: If the liver does not metabolize estrogen properly, PMS will result.
- rapidly: The first group more commonly cause allergic reactions and have a short length of action as they are rapidly metabolized by cholinesterase.
- extensively: Tramadol is extensively metabolized to M1 by your doctor.
- efficiently: In human beings permethrin is efficiently metabolized by mammalian livers.
- readily: However, DHEA is suboptimal for human use, partly because it is readily metabolized into sex steroids.
Preposition: in
- liver: Approximately 80 % to 90 % of nicotine is metabolized in the liver, kidneys and lungs.
- body: Biology Aspartame is metabolized in the body to its components: aspartic acid, phenylalanine, and methanol.
Preposition: by
- liver: Under normal conditions, fat from the diet is metabolized by the liver and other tissues.
- cytochrome: Rather, it stated that hypericum " ...may significantly affect plasma concentrations of any drug that is metabolized by the cytochrome P-450 system.
- body: Absorption and Fate Neurontin is not metabolized by the body, i.e. , it does not produce active or inactive metabolites.
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