What's the difference between anabolism and assimilation?

Anabolism


Definition:

  • (n.) The constructive metabolism of the body, as distinguished from katabolism.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This investigation examined the role of anabolic steroids on baseline heart rate (HR) and HR responses to the threat of capture in Macaca fascicularis.
  • (2) Stimulation of development and eruption of the teeth after administration of anabolic drugs.
  • (3) Anabolic steroid therapy for Fanconi's anemia has also been considered a promoter for hepatocellular neoplasms.
  • (4) In the brain, the second period of embryogenesis should be characterized by a lower utilisation of the catabolic pathways and by an increase of the anabolic ones.
  • (5) Both athletes and technicians awarded higher scores to risk than to efficacy for any substance, although 42-67% of athletes and technicians regarded amphetamines and anabolic steroids as efficacious.
  • (6) Administration of the androgenic anabolic steroid, stanozolol, is associated with decreased high density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol (primarily due to decreased HDL2 cholesterol) and increased levels of postheparin plasma hepatic triglyceride lipase (HTGL) activity.
  • (7) However, several days of the training seemed to reduce the anabolic to catabolic balance but further experiments are needed to confirm this finding.
  • (8) Thirteen percent of physicians are still prescribing the anabolic steroid Durabolin (nandrolone phenylpropionate) as an appetite stimulant long after promotion for this purpose has been dropped.
  • (9) To assess physiological and psychological states accompanying anabolic-androgenic steroid use, male weight lifters 1) were interviewed regarding their physical training and the patterns and effects of any drug use; 2) completed a written physical and medical history questionnaire, a Profile of Mood States questionnaire, and the Buss-Durkee Hostility Inventory; and 3) were physically examined, including a blood sample and urinalysis.
  • (10) The present study was done to determine whether doubling the GH dose would enhance its anabolic effects and facilitate fat loss.
  • (11) The addition of 0.2% NaHCO3 to the carbohydrate-supplemented medium enhanced the efficiency of the anabolic activity of growing cells, but did not promote bacterial growth.
  • (12) Other approaches involve the provision of alternate pathways for nitrogen disposal and by direct stimulation of nitrogen anabolism through the administration of branched-chain amino acids or their keto acid analogues.
  • (13) Anabolic implants increased (P less than .01) daily empty body protein gain from 91 to 119 and 133 g for Ralgro and Synovex, an increase of 31 and 46%, respectively.
  • (14) Some of the ammonia produced by hydrolysis of urea by Ureaplasma urealyticum is channelled into an anabolic pathway with resultant 'de novo' synthesis of citrulline.
  • (15) Anabolic steroids have been widely recommended in the management of debility in association with the diseases of old age.
  • (16) Parathyroid hormone, injected daily in low dosage, exerted anabolic effects on the human skeleton, just as it does in the rat.
  • (17) In addition, we found that rhIGF-I infusion is insufficient to promote protein anabolism.
  • (18) In patients on calcitonin+anabolic steroid the decrease was just significant and only at radius midshaft, while at the other measured sites it was not.
  • (19) Overall, the differential response to the two agents suggested that clenbuterol does not mediate its effects via the GH axis, and that an additive response in terms of protein anabolism may be achieved from the use of a combination of clenbuterol plus GH.
  • (20) As a case example of the application of this approach, the mode of action of many inhibitors of mitochondrial anabolism is discussed in terms of the mechanisms introduced here.

Assimilation


Definition:

  • (n.) The act or process of assimilating or bringing to a resemblance, likeness, or identity; also, the state of being so assimilated; as, the assimilation of one sound to another.
  • (n.) The conversion of nutriment into the fluid or solid substance of the body, by the processes of digestion and absorption, whether in plants or animals.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Essential parameters of hepatic functioning in 84 labourers, whose exposition to benzene is differing in assimilation as well as length of time is discussed.--45 persons from the same county without contact to benzene or hepatotoxic agents served as control-group.
  • (2) These results emphasize the potential importance of LPL-mediated lipid assimilation in the metabolic events that lead to energy production in response to environmental stresses and lend support to the notion that the regulation of LPL activity is tissue specific.
  • (3) The 13CO2 starch breath test is an attractive test for the study of factors affecting carbohydrate assimilation.
  • (4) In the animals the assimilation of the administered thiamin constituted 17,5-20% as compared with healthy animals; this phenomenon was accompanied by an increased urinary excretion of the vitamin.
  • (5) Results of these tests suggest that assimilation of protocatechuate and p-hydroxybenzoate may be a useful characteristic, when used in conjunction with traditional tests, for identifying C. parapsilosis and C. albidus.
  • (6) For each of the 3 major age groups (young, intermediate, and older), the paper describes general characteristics for children's though processes, ways in which children assimilate information about various aspects of AIDs, and implications for educating children about causes, prevention, and fear of AIDS.
  • (7) A gene (FRE1) was identified which encodes a protein required for both ferric iron reduction and efficient ferric iron assimilation, thus linking these two activities.
  • (8) Isotopes (153Sm, 186Re, and 166Ho) were assumed to assimilate as surface agents and the dose profiles were calculated on a microscopic scale using the Electron-Gamma Shower (EGS4) computer program.
  • (9) The dynamics and composition of labeled products formed upon assimilation of 14C-bicarbonate in the presence of unlabeled carbon oxide by the two organisms, the composition of products formed upon assimilation of 14CO by suspensions of S. carboxydohydrogena Z-1062 during 5 minutes, and the dynamics and composition of labeled assimilates of A. carboxydus Z-1171 after incubation in the presence of 14CO, were found to be consistent with those expected in the action of the reductive pentose phosphate Calvin cycle.
  • (10) The amino-oligopeptidase of the intestinal brush border possesses high specificity for oligopeptides having bulky side chains and is a candidate for a crucial role in the overall assimilation of dietary protein.
  • (11) Photosynthetic carbon assimilation and associated CO(2)-dependent O(2) evolution by chloroplasts isolated from pea shoots and spinach leaves is almost completely inhibited by 10mm-dl-glyceraldehyde.
  • (12) "They are over-assimilating to a culture that some men are now saying they don't want."
  • (13) NADH-GDH and AIDH are induced by ammonia, and it is suggested that these enzymes are involved in primary nitrogen assimilation.
  • (14) Close contacts of the yeast cells with the hydrocarbon being assimilated is important; assimilation may start in a close vicinity of the cell walls.
  • (15) The results suggest that the assimilation of amino acids by growing fungal cells was quantitatively comparable with their dissimilation to metabolites.
  • (16) This gene cluster is required for the assimilation of nitrate in A. nidulans, and the three genes encode a product required for nitrate uptake and the enzymes, nitrite reductase and nitrate reductase, respectively.
  • (17) The 21 biochemical and assimilation tests on the Rapid NFT test strips were treated according to the manufacturer's protocol, which included use of AUX medium (provided with the Rapid NFT system) for preparing assimilation tests, and by substituting phenol red broth base (BBL Microbiology Systems, Cockeysville, Md.)
  • (18) Previous studies indicate that schizophrenic thought processes show a disturbance in the balance between assimilation and accommodation, as Piaget uses these terms.
  • (19) Assimilation of kerosene and hexadecane was optimal at pH 2 and was stimulated by yeast extract.
  • (20) nit-4 is a pathway-specific regulatory gene which controls nitrate assimilation in Neurospora crassa, and appears to mediate nitrate induction of nitrate and nitrite reductase.