Glycogenolysis

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The biochemical breakdown of glycogen to glucose.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The production of glucose-1-phosphate by splitting a glucose monomer from glycogen using inorganic phosphate
  • Word Usage
    "In 1936, extending their quantitative analytical methods to hexose monophosphates in glycogenolysis, they discovered a new intermediate, glucose-1-phosphate, the Cori ester."