Medical term:
phosphagen
phos·pha·gen
(fos'fă-jen),Energy-rich guanidinium or amidine phosphate, serving as an energy store in muscle and brain; for example, phosphocreatine in mammals, phosphoarginine in invertebrates. Other phosphagens include phosphoagmatine, phosphoglycocyamine, and phospholombricine.
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phosphagen
(fŏs′fă-jĕn)Several chemicals, including phosphocreatine, that release energy when split. They are high-energy phosphate compounds.
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phosphagen
a type of chemical found in the muscles of all animals, whose function is to pass on high-energy phosphate to ADP to form ATP. Phosphagens thus act as energy-storage molecules and are especially useful when cellular respiration is not providing sufficient ATP molecules, for example when sudden muscular activity takes place. Phosphagens are of two types: creatine phosphate found in vertebrates and echinoderms, and arginine phosphate found in many other invertebrates.Collins Dictionary of Biology, 3rd ed. © W. G. Hale, V. A. Saunders, J. P. Margham 2005
phos·pha·gen·ic
(fos'fă-jen'ik),Phosphate-producing.
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