mismetabolize

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

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.