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mismetabolize en · VERB

Etymology

From mis- + metabolize.

Meanings

1. To metabolize improperly.
   • They are still relatively blunted, desensitized by mismetabolized residues from a denatured-foods past. 1987, Severen L. Schaeffer, Instinctive Nutrition, page 148:
   • The most plausible explanation of how mutations in the APP gene lead to AD is that they result in a protein that is mismetabolized. 2012, F. Owen, R. Itzhaki, Molecular and Cell Biology of Neuropsychiatric Diseases, page 103:
   • Cu and Fe are both potent inducers of highly toxic reactive oxygen species (ROS) such as the hydroxyl radical if mismetabolized. 2010 May, Aphrodite Caragounis, Katherine Ann Price, Cynthia P.W. Soon, Gulay Filiz, Colin L.Masters, Qiao-XinLi, Peter J.Crouch, Anthony R.White, “Zinc induces depletion and aggregation of endogenous TDP-43”, in Free Radical Biology and Medicine, volume 48, number 9:

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