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Cori refers to a number of different people, things and places.

Carl Ferdinand Cori and his wife Gerty Theresa Cori, Nobel Prize winning biochemists who researched glycogenolysis.
The Cori cycle involving gluconeogenesis from lactate produced by anaerobic metabolism.

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Category: Disambiguation Carl Ferdinand Cori (December 5, 1896 â€“ October 20, 1984) was an American biochemist born in Prague (then in Austria-Hungary) who, together with his wife Gerty Cori and Argentine physiologist Bernardo Houssay, received a Nobel Prize in 1947 for their discovery of how glycogen (animal starch) - a derivative of glucose... Gerty Theresa Cori, née Radnitz, (August 15, 1896 – October 26, 1957) was an American biochemist born in Prague (then Austria-Hungary) who, together with her husband Carl Ferdinand Cori and Argentine physiologist Bernardo Houssay, received a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1947 for their discovery of how glycogen... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... Glycogenolysis is the catabolism of glycogen (requiring removal of glucose unit from glycogen and addition of phosphate) thus producing glucose 1-phosphate, and subsequently reconfigured (C-1 -> C-6) to yield glucose 6-phosphate, a potent reaction intermediary leading to glucose available to the blood and brain, pyruvic acid (yet... Categories: Biochemistry stubs | Metabolism ... Gluconeogenesis, ultimately, is the generation of glucose from noncarbohydrate sources like lactate, glycerol, and amino acids. ... Lactic acid is a chemical compound that plays a role in several biochemical processes. ... Glycolysis is the initial metabolic pathway of carbohydrate catabolism. ...

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CORI: Contracting and Organizations Research Institute (682 words)
	The Contracting and Organizations Research Institute is an interdisciplinary research institute dedicated to the study of the organization and structure of economic enterprise and of the effects of legal, political, social, and economic institutions on the structure and performance of economic organizations.
	CORI was founded to encourage and enable empirical research on contracting and organizational structure, drawing on such fields as economics, law, business, and related social sciences.
	CORI Fellows Harvey James, Peter Klein and Michael Sykuta address this issue in the context of changes in the agri-food sector.

The Clinical Outcomes Research Initiative - Improving the Practice of Endoscopy Through Software and Research (345 words)
	Currently, CORI is installed in a wide variety of facilities ranging from hospitals, universities, Veteran's hospitals (VA's) and private practices.
	CORI takes this one step further in improving the overall practice by combining all data in the National Endoscopic Database, NED.
	CORI works with GI researchers to query the NED, refine research hypotheses, develop study protocols, recruit new CORI participants and advise on funding sources.

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