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The disappearance of extracellular protein may indicate that it is being metabolized by nutrient-deprived cells at the substratum.
As with glucose, fructose can be metabolized through the glycolytic pathway.
Under in-vitro conditions, many therapeutic chemicals can be metabolized by placental enzymes.
Some of the putative organisms were able to metabolize and synthesize organic compounds before they died being overwhelmed by water.
A change in the ability to metabolize pollutants under trematode exposure may be the cause of many physiological responses of the host subjected to pollution.
The extreme chemistry of the environment is produced by a microbial ecosystem that metabolizes sulfide minerals and produces sulfuric acid as a byproduct.
As more of the drug gets metabolized, less drug becomes bioavailable to effect protection.
Such preparations are metabolically active as shown by then* ability to metabolize radioactive glucose.