Glycogenesis is the process of glycogen synthesis, in which glucose molecules are added to chains of glycogen for storage. Glucose is converted into glucose-6-phosphate by the action of glucokinase or hexokinase.
In the narrative of I Maccabees, after Antiochus issued his decrees forbidding Jewish religious practice, a rural Jewish priest from Modiin, Mattathias the Hasmonean, sparked the revolt against the Seleucid Empire by refusing to worship the Greek gods.udea had been under Ptolemaic rule, but fell to the Seleucids around 200 BCE. Judea at that time had been affected by the Hellenization begun by Alexander. Some Jews, mainly those of the urban upper class, notably the Tobiad family, wished to dispense with Jewish law and to adopt a Greek lifestyle.
At their arrival the Spaniards expected the TaÃ­no Indians to acknowledge the sovereignty of the king of Spain by payment of gold tribute, to work and supply provisions of food and to observe Christian ways. The TaÃ­nos rebelled most notably in 1511, when several caciques (Indian leaders) conspired to oust the Spaniards.