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The main source of energy in cells throughout the body isn’t creatine itself, but adenosine triphosphate, or ATP.
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Matt Fuchs, Time, 2 Sep. 2025
Most of it ends up in your skeletal muscles, where it’s stored as phosphocreatine and used to regenerate adenosine triphosphate (ATP), the molecule that powers muscle contractions, nerve signals, and protein synthesis for tissue repair.
—Boutayna Chokrane, Wired News, 13 Aug. 2025
In our biochemistry, phosphorus, in the form of phosphate, is crucial for forming the sugar-phosphate backbone of molecules of RNA and DNA, as well as storing and delivering metabolic energy through adenosine triphosphate (ATP).
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 28 July 2025
Each cell contains hundreds or thousands of mitochondria, with each one designed to provide it with energy in the form of ATP (adenosine triphosphate).
—John Graham Harper, Forbes.com, 11 July 2025
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Matt Fuchs, Time, 2 Sep. 2025
Most of it ends up in your skeletal muscles, where it’s stored as phosphocreatine and used to regenerate adenosine triphosphate (ATP), the molecule that powers muscle contractions, nerve signals, and protein synthesis for tissue repair.
—Boutayna Chokrane, Wired News, 13 Aug. 2025
In our biochemistry, phosphorus, in the form of phosphate, is crucial for forming the sugar-phosphate backbone of molecules of RNA and DNA, as well as storing and delivering metabolic energy through adenosine triphosphate (ATP).
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 28 July 2025
Each cell contains hundreds or thousands of mitochondria, with each one designed to provide it with energy in the form of ATP (adenosine triphosphate).
—John Graham Harper, Forbes.com, 11 July 2025
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“Adenosine triphosphate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/adenosine%20triphosphate. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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adenosine triphosphate
noun
adenosine tri·phos·phate
-trī-ˈfäs-ˌfāt 
: atp
Medical Definition
adenosine triphosphate
noun
adenosine tri·phos·phate
-trī-ˈfäs-ˌfāt
: atp
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