Sentences with phrase «during normal metabolic functions»

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The team found that a specific mutant lacking the ferredoxin - 5 protein was unable to grow in the dark (in the nighttime) or perform normal metabolic functions, but it had no trouble growing during the light (in the daytime).

(21) Moreover, while the link between excessive visceral adipose tissue and age - independent diabetes and metabolic syndrome widely known, recent studies suggest instead that it is the accumulation of senescent subcutaneous adipocyte progenitors — and their abnormal metabolic function — that drives similar diabetes - like phenotypes during the «normal» aging process.

Glucose is the sole metabolic fuel used for nearly all brain functions under normal physiological conditions, but the brain will metabolize ketone bodies for energy when access to glucose is limited, as would occur during water - only therapeutic fasting in humans or during calorie restriction in mice.