GLYCOGEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does glycogen mean? 

• GLYCOGEN (noun)
  The noun GLYCOGEN has 1 sense:

1. one form in which body fuel is stored; stored primarily in the liver and broken down into glucose when needed by the body

  Familiarity information: GLYCOGEN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GLYCOGEN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One form in which body fuel is stored; stored primarily in the liver and broken down into glucose when needed by the body

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

animal starch; glycogen

Hypernyms ("glycogen" is a kind of...):

polyose; polysaccharide (any of a class of carbohydrates whose molecules contain chains of monosaccharide molecules)

Derivation:

glycogenic (of or relating to or involving glycogen)

 Context examples 

Skeletal muscle fibers having high myofibrillar ATPase activity, high glycolytic enzyme activities, and an intermediate glycogen content which produce a fast twitch.

(Muscle Fibers, Fast-Twitch, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

The biosynthesis of new glucose as opposed to that generated by the metabolism of glycogen.

(Gluconeogenic Process, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes glucagon protein, is involved in the stimulation of glycogen processing, gluconeogenesis and the absorption of nutrients by the gut.

(GCG wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

When glucose is mobilized from glycogen, it is released as glucose 1-phosphate.

(Feeder Pathways for Glycolysis, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

It also plays a role in glucose transport, glycogen synthesis, protein synthesis and neuronal survival.

(AKT1 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

Skeletal muscle fibers having low myofibrillar ATPase activity, low glycogen content, and high myoglobin content, high mitochondrial oxidative enzyme activities, and an intermediate mitochondrial content which produce a slow twitch and are fatigue-resistant.

(Muscle Fibers, Slow-Twitch, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Causes include inadequate hepatic glycogen stores, inadequate lipid stores, or inadequate amino acid muscle stores.

(Neonatal Hypoglycemia, NCI Thesaurus)

A perivascular cell with abundant clear or eosinophilic cytoplasm that contains glycogen. — 2005

(Perivascular Epithelioid Cell, NCI Thesaurus)

Mutation of the gene is associated with glycogen storage disease type 7.

(PFKM wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Its cytoplasm is composed of tightly packed mitochondria and glycogen granules, with rare secretory granules, stains pink, and the margin is usually observed.

(Parathyroid Gland Oxyphil Cell, NCI Thesaurus)