Concept information
Preferred term
Metabolism
Type
-
Topical Descriptor
Narrower concepts
- Acid-Base Equilibrium
- Acylation
- Aerobiosis
- Alkylation
- Amination
- Anaerobiosis
- Autotrophic Processes
- Biocatalysis
- Biological Transport
- Biotinylation
- Body Composition
- Brain Chemistry
- Carbohydrate Metabolism
- Catabolite Repression
- Cell Respiration
- Cyclization
- Dealkylation
- Deamination
- Decarboxylation
- Dimerization
- Energy Metabolism
- Enterohepatic Circulation
- Enzyme Activation
- Esterification
- Halogenation
- Heterotrophic Processes
- Hydrogenation
- Hydroxylation
- Insulin Secretion
- Lipid Metabolism
- Melanogenesis
- Metabolic Networks and Pathways
- Metabolome
- Nitrosation
- Osmoregulation
- Oxidative Stress
- Oxygen Consumption
- Oxygen Saturation
- Peptide Biosynthesis
- Pharmacokinetics
- Phosphorylation
- Phototrophic Processes
- Prenylation
- Protein Binding
- Proteolysis
- Proteostasis
- Proteotoxic Stress
- Renin-Angiotensin System
- RNA Processing, Post-Transcriptional
- Secretory Rate
- Toxicokinetics
Entry terms
- Metabolic Process
- Metabolic Processes
- Processes, Metabolic
- Process, Metabolic
Note
- general only as metabolic process/phenomena irrespective of substance; prefer /metab with organs, organisms, diseases, substances
Scope note
- The chemical reactions in living organisms by which energy is provided for vital processes and activities and new material is assimilated.
History note
- METABOLIC PROCESSES was NON MESH 1992-97; TISSUE METABOLISM was heading 1963-65
In other languages
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Finnish
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metabolia
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metabolismi
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metabolismus
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Swedish
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Anabolism
-
Katabolism
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Metaboliska fenomen
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Metaboliska processer
URI
http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D008660
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