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triphosphate

n. 1 (context chemistry English) Any salt or ester containing three phosphate groups. 2 (context chemistry English) Any salt or ester of triphosphoric acid.

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Virtually all the food and oxygen you take into your body are delivered, after processing, to the mitochondria, where they are converted into a molecule called adenosine triphosphate, or ATP.

Acetyl-choline, adenosine triphosphate, adrenaline, a whole alphabet of brain chemicals.

A combination of two enzymes -- ethylene disulphonate and adenosine triphosphate, which, when injected together, improve carbohydrate metabolism in nervous tissue -- may also turn out to be effective.

ATP, adenosine triphosphate, was a molecule that provided energy for most metabolic processes.

I learned, was increased above the other nucleotides, hence more adenosine triphosphate and hence higher energy conversion in the phosphate group.

All it really says is that the level of adenosine triphosphate was depressed, and one precursor for that would be a physical struggle.

The microvoltage of the phosphorylation of adenosine diphosphate to adenosine triphosphate in the cells' chlorophyll tingles his fingersensors when he feels for it.

Never in your life will you have to remind a cell to keep an eye on its adenosine triphosphate levels or to find a place for the extra squirt of folic acid that’.

I made the ship the electric duplicate of a D-glucose molecule and hoped the cell would do the normal thing and interact with a molecule of ATP -- adenosine triphosphate.

Much of it is initially employed to synthesize one of biochemistry's key modules, adenosine triphosphate (universally abbreviated by biochemists to ATP).

But if one were to electrically stimulate the perforant pathway to the hippocampus, and get a great deal of adenosine triphosphate past the blood-brain barrier, for instance, thus stimulating the long-term potentiation that aided learning in the first place.

The energy liberated by the oxidization of the products of cytoplasmic metabolism is converted into adenosine triphosphate .

Llewellyn should have noted the stage of rigor mortis or stiffness, which occurs when the body no longer produces the adenosine triphosphate (ATP) needed for muscles to contract.

Your bodies break down the bonds of carbon-containing molecules, and a significant portion of the food's potential energy is repackaged into the phosphate bonds of adenosine triphosphate (ATP).

But his pronunciation of, say, guanosine triphosphate, seemed to give this benign molecule explosive properties.