A sub-problem that I've not yet resolved
exists in what I posted earlier [with a lot
of typos -- Sorry].
"kenneth collins" <kenneth.p.collins at worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
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| [...]
| Quoting necessary context from the text:
|| These "reservoirs" include "the large branched
| polysaccharide glygogen [...], which is present
| as small granules in the cytoplasm of many
| cells", and fat. "Quantitatively, fat is a far more
| important storage form than glycogen, in part
| because the oxidation of a gram of fat releases
| about twice as much energy as the oxidation
| of a gram of glycogen. Moreover, glycogen
| differs from fat in binding a great deal of water,
| producing a sixfold difference in the actual
| mass of glycogen required to store the same
| amount of energy as fat. An average adult
| human stores enough glycogen for only about
| a day of normal activities but enough fat to
| last for nearly a month."
|| End of quoted contextual information.
|| Glycogen production seems relatively-costly,
| but it's not because it constitutes the "engram"
| that contains 'knowledge', usable in the rest
| of a cell's dynamics, and through which 'know-
| ledge' the rest of the cell is able to regulate
| its 3-D E, "functionally-multiplexing" various
| chemical-reaction branch-points as a func-
| tion of glycogen-existence.
|| In other words, the 'costliness' of glycogen
| energy-storage is illusory because the main
| function of glycogen is to act as a 'know-
| ledge-base' with respect to cellular-'level'
| 3-D E.
| [...]
I =presume= that, during starvation, fat
is used in a a "minimal" glycogen 'main-
tenance', and that this fits with my earlier
discussion -- because the "minimalness"
of the 'state' of glycogen would, in accord
with what I discussed earlier, "signal" that
the 'state' of 3-D E is "in-crisis", resulting
in "conservitive" energy-path activation.
I'll test this as I continue my reading, and
see if I've some other ref [besides my own
experience :-] that treats the molecular
dynamics of "starvation".
[I'm not yet "there", BTW. Only see it com-
ing because I can't find employment.]
Tomorrow, I'll post something "interesting"
with respect to "protein synthesis", and am
sure, when I read that stuff, it'll dovetail
with this "glycogen" stuff, and that it'll
probably require refinements to this "glyco-
gen" stuff.
Again, what I'm doing is working to
"connect" everything within 3-D E.
k. p. collins
