endrocrine regualtion

week 2

Glycogen

is the major storage form of carbohydrate in animals (corresponds to starch in plants)

muscle

The function of glycogen in ____ is to act as a readily available source of glucose for glycolysis within the muscle itself.

Liver glycogen

is largely concerned with export of glucose for the maintenance of glycemia

glycogen phosphorylase

Glycogen is degraded to glucose units by the activity of ____ _____, that catalyzes by phosphorolysis the release of glucose-1P from glycogen

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Phosphoglucomutase

catalyzes the conversion of Glucose-1P to glucose-6P, which enters the glycolytic pathway

phosphorylase-a;

Glycogen phosphorylase occurs in two forms: the active form or _____