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Warburg effects

Warburg effects is the plural of Warburg effect.

Meaning of Warburg effect

Noun

Warburg effect (plural Warburg effects)

  1. The observation that most cancer cells release energy predominantly not through the 'usual' citric acid cycle and oxidative phosphorylation in the mitochondria as observed in normal cells, but through a less efficient process of 'anaerobic glycolysis' consisting of a high level of glucose uptake and glycolysis followed by lactic acid fermentation taking place in the cytosol, not the mitochondria, even in the presence of abundant oxygen.

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What is Warburg effects the plural of?
Warburg effects is the plural of Warburg effect.

Words near Warburg effects in the dictionary

  1. Warboyses
  2. Warbreck
  3. warbs
  4. Warburg
  5. Warburg effect
  6. Warburg effects
  7. Warburg micro syndrome
  8. Warburg syndrome
  9. Warburg's tincture
  10. warburganal
  11. Warburn

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