Associations to the word «Phosphagen»

Wiktionary

PHOSPHAGEN, noun. (biochemistry) Any of a class of energy storage compounds, chiefly found in muscular tissue in animals, allowing a high-energy phosphate pool to be maintained in a concentration range, which, if it all were ATP, would create problems due to the ATP consuming reactions in these tissues.

Wise words

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John Locke