| Term: | muscle glycogen |
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| Note: | This page represents a term created by the combination ("post-composition") of two ontology terms. For more information on the individual terms, click the hyperlinked name. |
| Name: | muscle |
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| Synonyms: | muscles |
| Definition: | Portion of tissue composed of contractile fibers. |
| Ontology: | Anatomy Ontology [ZFA:0005145] |
| Name: | glycogen |
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| Synonyms: | animal starch, Glycogen, liver starch |
| Definition: | A polydisperse, highly branched glucan composed of chains of D-glucopyranose residues in α(1→4) glycosidic linkage, joined together by α(1→6) glycosidic linkages. A small number of α(1→3) glycosidic linkages and some cumulative α(1→6) links also may occur. The branches in glycogen typically contain 8 to 12 glucose residues. |
| Ontology: | ChEBI [CHEBI:28087] ( EBI ) |