METABOLICALLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does metabolically mean? 

• METABOLICALLY (adverb)
  The adverb METABOLICALLY has 1 sense:

1. involving metabolism

  Familiarity information: METABOLICALLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• METABOLICALLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Involving metabolism

Context example:

metabolically important substances

Pertainym:

metabolic (of or relating to metabolism)

 Context examples 

The biologic significance of IL6 lies in the fact that it is induced under conditions in which IFN-beta 1 is not induced, as in metabolically stressed cells.

(Interleukin-6, NCI Thesaurus)

Metabolically active, l-leucovorin, also known levoleucovorin, does not require bioactivation by dihydrofolate reductase, an enzyme inhibited by folic acid antagonists.

(Levoleucovorin, NCI Thesaurus)

This protein plays a role in the reduction of metabolically active carbonyl compounds.

(Carbonyl Reductase [NADPH] 3, NCI Thesaurus)

PGC-1a is highly expressed in metabolically active tissues including brown fat, skeletal muscle and heart.

(PGC1a Regulation Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

This agent is metabolically stable, accumulates in the normal bone marrow and the liver, and does not cross the blood-brain barrier.

(Fluorothymidine F-18, NCI Thesaurus)

The parts of chromosomes that, during interphase, are uncoiled dispersed threads and not stained by ordinary dyes; metabolically active, in contrast to the inert heterochromatin.

(Euchromatin, NCI Thesaurus)

And what we found is that the degree to which the amygdala was metabolically active, the degree to which it lit up on imaging – and we can quantify that – nicely predicted the risk of subsequent cardiovascular disease events, said Tawakol.

(Biological Link Found Between Stress, Heart Disease, VOA)

Daporinad binds to and inhibits nicotinamide phosphoribosyltransferase (NMPRTase), inhibiting the biosynthesis of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+) from niacinamide (vitamin B3), which may deplete energy reserves in metabolically active tumor cells and induce tumor cell apoptosis.

(Daporinad, NCI Thesaurus)

The mice become metabolically hyperactive and, even when consuming a diet very high in fat and sugar, are able to resist metabolic diseases such as obesity, hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, diabetes, and atherosclerosis, said the study’s lead researcher Filip Swirski, Ph.D., an associate professor at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.

(Some gut cells slow down metabolism, accelerate cardiovascular disease, National Institutes of Health)