{"id":8067,"date":"2019-05-22T16:03:40","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/glycogen\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:03:40","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:03:40","slug":"glycogen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/glycogen\/","title":{"rendered":"Glycogen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes referred to as &#8216;animal starch&#8217;, it is a polysaccharide that is the chief carbohydrate store in animal cells and produced from glucose by hydrolysis. &nbsp;It is broken down into lactic acid (and thus is useful for endurance athletes) when it is used as an energy source in the liver or muscles. &nbsp;It has also been referred to as &#8220;nature&#8217;s rocket fuel&#8221;. &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"carbohydrates\">Carbohydrates<\/a>, <a href=\"hydrolysis\">Hydrolysis<\/a>, <a href=\"phosphorylation\">Phosphorylation<\/a>, <a href=\"type_2_muscle_fibers\">Type 2 muscle fibers<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes referred to as &#8216;animal starch&#8217;, it is a polysaccharide that is the chief carbohydrate store in animal cells and produced from glucose by hydrolysis. &nbsp;It is broken down into lactic acid (and thus is useful for endurance athletes) when it is used as an energy source in the liver or muscles. &nbsp;It has also &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/glycogen\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Glycogen&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}