mismetabolize

mismetabolize

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ metabolize

Verb

mismetabolize (third-person singular simple present mismetabolizes, present participle mismetabolizing, simple past and past participle mismetabolized)

1. To metabolize improperly.
   • 1987, Severen L. Schaeffer, Instinctive Nutrition, page 148:

     They are still relatively blunted, desensitized by mismetabolized residues from a denatured-foods past.

   • 2010 May, Aphrodite Caragounis, Katherine Ann Price, Cynthia P.W. Soon, Gulay Filiz, Colin L.Masters, Qiao-XinLi, Peter J.Crouch, Anthony R.White, “Zinc induces depletion and aggregation of endogenous TDP-43”, in Free Radical Biology and Medicine, volume 48, number 9:

     Cu and Fe are both potent inducers of highly toxic reactive oxygen species (ROS) such as the hydroxyl radical if mismetabolized.

   • 2012, F. Owen, ‎R. Itzhaki, Molecular and Cell Biology of Neuropsychiatric Diseases, page 103:

     The most plausible explanation of how mutations in the APP gene lead to AD is that they result in a protein that is mismetabolized.