1. Why is it that Individuals with thiamin deficiency have high levels of pyruvate in their blood?

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A: Glycogen is a complex carbohydrate that is the predominant form of glucose storage in both animals…

Q: 7. During several days, Patient A got a mcal with high caloric value, and Patient B - with a low…

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Q: In your own understanding, what do you think is/are the reason why most of the clinical features of…

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Q: In one or two words, explain the following statement: In liver, glucagon stimulates glycogen…

A: Metabolism comes under the category of chemical process in which food is converted into energy in…

Q: 2. A person performs intense exercise (for example, runs away from danger) 30 minutes after a…

A: Glucose is used as the main energy source in the body. Glucose is part of carbohydrates in…

Q: One major side effect of the herbal supplement can be hot flashes and increased persperiation due to…

A: One of the major side effect of herbal supplement can be hot flashes and increased persperiation due…

Q: the glycolytic enzyme pyruvate kinase is activated by dephosphorylation and inactivated by…

A: Pyruvate kinase  It's an important glycolysis enzyme that helps converting PEP (phosphoenolpyruvate)…

Q: 1. How is glycerol generated in nonhepatic tissues? 2. which tissues express glycerol kinase?

A: Glycerol is a simple sugar alcohol that is found in many foods. It is a major component of…

Q: 1. Describe the digestion of dietary proteins

A: Proteins are one of the major biomolecules in the system. They are the building blocks of cells.…

Q: A deficiency in which of the following B vitamins would NOT directly impact the ability of cells to…

A: Deficiencies in all of the above would directly impact the ability of cells to convert pyruvate into…

Q: how lanosterol is produced from dimethylallylpyrophosphate and isopentenyl pyrophosphate.  2.…

A: The lanosterol path is a section of the cholesterol manufacturing pathway that is made up of twelve…

Q: What is the energy yield in ATP molecules associated with pyruvate ? acetyl-CoA + CO2

A: The process by which pyruvate is converted into acetyl-CoA and carbon dioxide (CO2) is known as…

Q: An individual has a mutation that prevents the proper formation of lactate dehydrogenase. What is…

A: Lactate dehydrogenase is an enzyme that occurs in almost all living cells. This enzyme is expressed…

Q: :Acetyl CoA produced from pyruvate occurs in the cytosol. not depends on the coenzyme biotin. is…

A: The process of glycolysis yields pyruvate from the glucose by various step reactions using the…

Q: 1. Fatty acids are transported into the mitochondria as fatty acyl-carnitine rather than fatty…

A: The synthesis of fatty acid occurs in the cytosol of a cell. The process includes the repeated…

Q: metabolism in the liver and adipose tissue during the prolonged fasting; b) name the hormones that…

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Q: How does an increase in the NADH/NAD+ratio affect the activity of pyruvate dehydrogenase?

A: The enzyme pyruvate (PDH) dehydrogenase is the major protein complex that helps to connect…

Q: Which of the following best describes the reason why Type 1 diabetics are more ketosis prone than…

A: Diabetes is a condition characterized by increased levels of glucose in the blood. This condition is…

Q: 10. The patients with a genetically determined medium-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase (MCAD) deficiency…

A: MCAD (medium chain acyl- CoA dehydrogenase) deficiency is an inherited disorder that prevents our…

Q: . functional insulin required the association of two polypeptides known as the A and B chains

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Q: 12. What is the final common catabolic pathway for metabolism of carbohydrate, protein and fat? (a)…

A: Cells are machinery structures which carry out various complex controlled biochemical reactions in…

Q: Most defects in pyruvate dehydrogenase complex are due to mutations in ______, so supplements with…

A: Introduction  Pyruvate dehydrogenase is a complex of enzymes that plays a critical role in aerobic…

Q: Which stage of aerobic respiration is acetyl CoA produced?

A: All together for pyruvate, the result of glycolysis, to enter the following pathway, it should go…

Q: How does an increase in the NADH/NAD1 ratio affect the activity of pyruvate dehydrogenase?

A: Introduction: The citric acid cycle is a series of reactions that yield two carbon dioxide…

Q: During prolong starvation, why some tissues start using fatty acids as their fuel ?

A: Glycogen is also a carbohydrate. Glycogenesis is the formation of glycogen from the glucose and is…

Q: If instead of using the pyruvate for gluconeogenesis, the pyruvate entered the mitochondria, what…

A: The question states that if pyruvate enters the mitochondria instead of being used for…

Q: Which of the following B vitamins is used in the conversion of pyruvate to oxaloacetate? Biotin…

A: Different forms of Vitamin B act as cofactors in many enzyme catalyzed steps.  Conversion of…

Q: People with beriberi, a disease caused by thiamine deficiency, have elevated levels of blood…

A: Pyruvate dehydrogenase is the enzyme responsible for converting pyruvate into acetyl CoA during the…

Q: 3. A patient has got excess carbohydrate meal for the years and gain the weight. To explain this: a)…

A: Carbohydrates are macromolecules made up of  H, C, and O. It provides energy to the body. The body…

Q: Which of the following best explain lactose intolerance? O Inability to digest lactose and causes…

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Q: What are the vitamin derivatives of the following A. Nicotinamide coenzyme B. Flavin coenzyme C.…

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Q: What is a common source of pyruvate?

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Q: 6. Fill in the following blanks for how many of the following products would be generated under…

A: Succinyl-CoA synthetase is an enzyme that catalyzed the conversion of succinyl-CoA into succinate. A…

Q: 25) Write down the two gluconeogenic reactions that allow the glycolytic enzymes hexokinase and…

A: Gluconeogenesis can be defined as the reverse process of glycolysis. To bypass the glycolytic steps…

Q: 4. (a) duced in large part by cells in the liver via a specialized metabolic program called…

A: Introduction: Glycolysis is the process in which glucose is oxidized to two molecules of pyruvate in…

Q: 28. all of the following enzymes are involved in gluconeogenesis except a. UDP-glucose…

A: Gluconeogenesis is the synthesis of glucose from non-carbohydrate precursors. Precursors of…

Q: 7. aisease results in a deficiency in the enzyme glucose-6-phosphatase, essentially little to no…

A: Introduction: Glycogen is the storage type of glucose in animals similar to starch in plants. The…

Q: The disease beriberi, which results from a dietary deficiency of vitamin B1 (thiamine), is…

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Q: The glycolytic enzyme pyruvate kinase catalyzes the conversion of: 1,3-bisphosphoglycerate into…

A: Glycolysis is a metabolic pathway that converts one molecule of glucose to two molecules of…

Q: A patient who has been drinking large amounts of alcohol for long periods of time shows thefollowing…

A: The patient has been consuming large amounts alcohol for a long time. He or she is showing signs of…

Q: Which of the following is incorrect about the conversion of pyruvate (with 3 C) and CO₂ to…

A: In gluconeogenesis, glucose is synthesized from non-carbohydrate sources e.g., amino acids,…

Q: . Name the phosphate-modifying enzyme that turns off glycogenolysis and turns on glycogenolysis. 2.…

A: Glycogen is a polysaccharide of glucose that serves as a form of energy storage in animals.