Meanings
present singular third person phlorizinizes · participle present phlorizinizing · participle past phlorizinized · past phlorizinized
- To treat with phlorizin.
For the study of glucose excretion fish were phlorizinized by injecting 300 to 400 mg. […]
1935, Journal of Cellular and Comparative Physiology, volume 5, page 3042 more examples
He concluded from the high D/N ratios and from the decreased nitrogen elimination on phlorizinizing that excreted sugar could not be derived entirely from protein , and that fat must therefore also be considered a source.
1951, Edward Herman Strisower, The Conversion in Vivo of Fat to Carbohydrate and Tracer Equations Characterizing Linked Metabolic Systems, page 1Homer Smith points out that 100 mg of phlorizin per kilo of body weight injected intravenously is insufficient to completely phlorizinize a man.
1964, The Journal of Biological Chemistry, page 3249
Origin
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