Glycogen Definition

Glycogen Sentence Examples

• Within the cytoplasm are found manifestations of functional activity, in the form of digestive vacuoles, granules, fat, glycogen, pigment, and foreign bodies.

• The significance of glycogen in large amounts, or of its absence from the tissues in pathological conditions, is not clearly understood.

• Glycogen is formed by the action of a ferment on the carbohydrates - the starches being converted into sugars.

• Invisible to the microscope, but rendered visible by reagents, are glycogen, Mucor, Ascomycetes, yeast, &c. In addition to these cell-contents we have good indirect evidence of the existence of large series of other bodies, such as proteids, carbohydrates, organic acids, alkaloids, enzymes, &c. These must not be confounded with the numerous substances obtained by chemical analysis of masses of the fungus, as there is often no proof of the manner of occurrence of such bodies, though we may conclude with a good show of probability that some of them also exist preformed in the living cell.

• This is the time to replace glycogen used during the event.