After exercise, people often consume carbohydrate-rich foods to restock their glycogen stores. How is glycogen synthesis stimulated?

Q: There must be a way to shut down glycogen breakdown quickly to prevent the wasteful depletion of…

A: Glucose is the energy source of energy in the body. Glucose is stored to form a storage polymer,…

Q: What are the effects of saturated and unsaturated fatty acids onplasma cholesterol?

A: Introduction: Fatty acids are the basic and simplest form of lipids present in both animals and…

Q: What is the signal that ultimately triggers an increase in glycogen breakdown?

A: Glycogenolysis is the process by which glycogen is broken down into glucose-1-phosphate and…

Q: Advertisements for a food supplement to betaken by athletes claimed that the energy bars contained…

A: The complex starch, the glycogen is stored as an energy storage form of carbohydrates in animals.

Q: How Is Glycogen Synthesized?

A: The metabolic pathway by which glycogen is synthesized from glucose is referred to as glycogenesis.…

Q: Would eating candy bars, high insucrose rather than complex carbohydrates, help build up glycogen…

A: Sucrose is a disaccharide which can be hydrolyzed by the action of sucrase enzyme to glucose and…

Q: Describe beta oxidation and tell where it takes place Where does most of the glycerol produced by…

A: Fatty acids are a type of carboxylic acid consist of a long carbon chain that may be unsaturated or…

Q: Describe the different functions of glycogen in liver and muscle

A: Polysaccharides are larger molecules of sugar compounds that are made up of many smaller units of…

Q: * How many high-energy molecules are netted for one molecule of glucose undergoing glycolysis?

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Q: Does glycolysis occur within the mitochondria?

A: Glycolysis is a process in which the glucose molecule is converted into two molecules of pyruvic…

Q: Would eating candy bars, high in sucrose rather than complex dietary carbohydrates, help build up…

A: Carbohydrates  are the polyhydroxy ketones or polyhydroxy aldehydes or their derivatives. In…

Q: In what two organs does major glycogen storage occur?

A: Glycogen is a branched polysaccharide of glucose and the main form of glucose in human body. It…

Q: Why is glucose provided by glycogenolysis in the liver but not in skeletal muscle?

A: Through glycogenolysis process, glycogen broken down into glucose and provide energy.  Muscle…

Q: How does glucose binding to glycogen phosphorylase stimulate glycogen synthesis?

A: When there is an enormous amount of energy present, then the cell uses these to synthesize glycogen…

Q: Is cholesterol synthesis increased or decreased in response to high dietary intake of cholesterol?

A: Cholesterol is an organic molecule that belongs to the class of lipids. It is an essential for the…

Q: Cells in the liver and in skeletal muscle store glycogen.

A: Introduction: Multibranched polysaccharide glycogen is a form of glucose that is stored in animals,…

Q: How does insulin and glucagon affect the rate of glycogenesis, glycogenolysis, and glycolysis?

A: Introduction: Insulin is a polypeptide hormone produced by beta cells of Langerhans of the pancreas.…

Q: List and describe the steps of glycogen breakdown and identify the enzymes required.

A: Glycogen undergoes breakdown when there are low ATP molecules in the cell or blood glucose is low.…

Q: When deaminated, which amino acids produce citric acid cycle components and glycolysis…

A: Deamination of amino acids: Deamination is the removal of the amino group from any molecule.…

Q: How do the pathways for the synthesis and breakdown of glycogen differ in liver and muscle? How does…

A: In stressful conditions/fasting/starvation when the blood glucose level is low, some…

Q: Why is it essential that the mechanisms that activate glycogen synthesis also deactivate glycogen…

A: Glycogen is a polysaccharide that facilitates the energy storage functions in animals, bacteria,…

Q: Briefly discuss the process of glycogen synthesis in step by step

A: Glycogen synthesis , also called glycogenesis is the process by which the liver polymerize excess…

Q: How Is Glycogen Metabolism Controlled

A: Glycogen is the branched glucose polymer that is found in many organs but the largest quantities are…

Q: What roles do glucagon and epinephrine play in glycogen breakdown?

A: Glycogen is a branched polymer of glucose residues and most of the glycogen molecule is degraded to…

Q: How does insulin stimulate glycogen synthesis?

A: Insulin is a polypeptide hormone produced by the beta-cells of the islets of langerhans. It favors…

Q: How does the breakdown of glycogen take place?

A: Introduction: Glycogen is a polysaccharide made up of branched glucose units. The glucose residues…

Q: How are branch points normally introduced into glycogen?

A: Introduction: Glycogen is a multibranched polysaccharide of glucose that acts as an energy storage…

Q: After prolonged exercise the body becomes depleted of glycogen. Which type of diet will lead to a…

A: High fat and high protein diet do not replenish glycogen quickly.

Q: How does ketogenic diet affect the human physiological processes, particularly in the regulation of…

A: Ketogenic Diet    A diet introduced by Russel Wilder in 1921. A diet in which the proportion of…

Q: Which of the following enzymes is considered as the principal enzyme for the regulation of…

A: Glycogen is storage form of glucose. It can be synthesized from glucose by glycogenesis.…

Q: Explain the pathways for glycogen metabolism and their purpose.

A: Glycogen is the primary storage form of glucose in the body. It contains glucose units to form…

Q: Which protein protects cells from the effects of oxidative stress ?

A: When there is an imbalance between the concentration of free radicals and antioxidants in the body,…

Q: Experienced runners know that it is poor practice to ingest large amounts of glucose immediately…

A: Bio molecules also known as biological molecules. These are the molecules which are produced by…

Q: What role does insulin play in glycogen synthesis?

A: Glycogen is a storage form of glucose that is stored in the muscle and liver cells. Glycogen is a…

Q: fatty acid be converted into glucose?

A: Gluconeogenesis is a process by which the production of glucose from non-carbohydrate compounds…

Q: Which does not occur during glycolysis?

A: Glycolysis is the first step in the breakdown of glucose to extract energy for cellular metabolism.…

Q: Avidin, a protein found in egg whites, binds to biotin so strongly that it inhibits enzymes that…

A: Avidin was naturally found in the raw eggs whereas the affinity of biotin was destroyed upon…

Q: Do adrenaline rush promotes glycogenesis?

A: Adrenaline is also known by the name epinephrine. This hormone is referred to as the type of stress…

Q: Advertisements for a food supplement to be taken by athletes claimed that the energy bars contained…

A: Yes Glucose and fructose are the best precursors of glycogen.  For athlets, food supplement should…

Q: How is the enzymatic activity reversed so that glycogen breakdown halts and glycogen synthesis…

A: Cellular respiration is a catabolic pathway of the process of metabolism, where a series of chemical…

Q: Briefly discuss the process of glycogen synthesis.

A: The process of glycogen synthesis is called Glycogenesis.

Q: Describe the steps of glycogen synthesis and identify the enzymes required

A: Glycogen synthesis is the process of adding a new glucose molecule to the preexisting glycogen. and…

Q: How many molecules of ATP are required to store one glucose molecule as glycogen?

A: Glycogen: Glycogen is a branched-chain homopolysaccharide made from α-D-glucose. Its important…

Q: Explain what is the relationship between glycolysis and gluconeogenesis?

A: Glycolysis is the metabolic process by which glucose is broken down (Catabolic pathway), while…