What's the difference between catabolism and katabolism?
Catabolism
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Katabolism
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(n.) Destructive or downward metabolism; regressive metamorphism; -- opposed to anabolism. See Disassimilation.
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(1) Postoperative: Interruption of the vicious circle of diminished offer of nutrition, postoperative katabolism, which increases the need for amino-acids and so interferes with the process of wound-healing and the protection against infection.
(2) On account of their katabolic status in general, elderly people show increasing involution of every organ and tissue.
(3) Protein anabolism as well as katabolism can be evaluated with it, and the simultaneous determination of platelet and fibrinogen turnover may be especially useful in pathological conditions.
(4) In practice, they help: to diagnose especially subclinical forms of fat embolism with non-marked clinical symptoms; to define a suitable term of both primary and delayed operation performed in the period of ending katabolic phase after severe trauma; to define an optimum time for the indication of osteosynthesis to the end of manifest fat embolism; to control positive effects of drugs used for the prophylaction and treatment of fat embolism.
(5) Various cellular processes are discussed which might be able to reduce in protozoa as well as in higher organisms the accumulation of "errors" in protein synthesis by the interplay of error accumulation and cell division frequency or by katabolic effects after a generative process of one kind or another.
(6) After 3, 6, 10, and 12 months the clinical picture, hydratation, protein katabolism, degree of anaemia and renal osteodystrophy as well as number of complications, degree of rehabilitation, concentration of the medium-molecular substances and of phenylalanine and the glucose tolerance were compared and the opinion of the patients concerning different types of the plan of dialysis was inquired.
(7) The results suggest an anabolic and katabolic function of cells.
(8) In this review the pathophysiological mechanisms of general clinical symptoms during the treatment of severe burn injuries (hypovolemia, katabolism, anemia, coagulation disorders, hyperbilirubinemia, hypoxia, cardiac insufficiency and bone disorders) are analysed with special reference to specific therapeutical measures.
(9) The experimental work of Robert on the action of the unsaponifiable fractions of the avocado pear and soya bean on inflammatory granulomata of the rat gives rise to the supposition that these have a selective action on inflamed connective tissue by a process of katabolism of collagen through proteolytic enzymes.