Excess cortisol is known to increase catabolism (protein breakdown in muscles ).
Hering has long insisted on a self-regulative adjustment of the cell metabolism, so that action involves reaction, increased catabolism necessitates after-increase of anabolism.
If protein turnover rates are measured in growing meat animals, the half-life for protein synthesis is shorter than the half-life for protein catabolism.
Man and other primates excrete uric acid as the final product of purine catabolism as the result of lacking uricase.
So any treatments that could reduce muscle catabolism might prove beneficial.
That pathway is discussed along with the topic of amino acid catabolism.
The effect of acidosis on nutrition was highlighted - acidosis increases protein catabolism and reduces albumin production.
The long-continued incitement to catabolism of the waking day thus of itself predisposes the nerve cells towards rebound into the opposite phase; the increased catabolism due to the day's stimuli induces increase of anabolism, and though recuperation goes on to a large extent during the day itself, the recuperative process is slower than, and lags behind, the disintegrative.
This lecture will examine how a common metabolite in both fat and carbohydrate catabolism could hold some insight into metabolic integration.
Within 1 month of glucocorticosteroid therapy, reduction in serum immunoglobulins is noted because of increased catabolism.