Facts about Metabolism
The core metabolic processes have been synthesized and standardized into the Chart of Intermediary Metabolism.
Cell metabolism involves extremely complex sequences of controlled chemical reactions called metabolic pathways.
The smooth endoplasmic reticulum is responsible for some carbohydrate metabolism.
Metabolism (from ????????????, "metabolismos") is the biochemical modification of chemical compounds in living organisms and cells.
The first controlled experiments in human metabolism were published by Santorio Santorio (1561-1636) in 1614, in his book, Ars de Statica Medecina, that made him famous throughout Europe.
Cell metabolism is the sum of many ongoing individual processes by which living cells process nutrient molecules and maintain a living state.
Most of the known signals are hormones and the molecules involved in metabolism itself.
Metabolism involves complex and often-interactive biochemical reactions usually aided by enzymes and often coordinated by anabolic and catabolic hormones.
Knowledge of metabolism has accumulated over a period of more than 400 years, and especially in the first half of the twentieth century, through the experiments and studies of hundreds of research scientists.
Metabolism is a unifying aspect of all forms of life, with the most complex forms of life relying on some of the same metabolic pathways found in single-celled organisms.
The term "metabolism" is derived from the Greek word for "change," or "overthrow."