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Sweet solution: sugars to the rescue.

The Journal of cell biology - 19 Aug 2002

Freeze Hudson H

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Sugar pills are usually placebos, but Smith et al. (2002, this issue) use one to rescue designer mice unable to make GDP-Fucose. Dietary fucose enters a salvage pathway and spares the mice. Sound simple? Not so. Unknown genetic factors determine life or death.

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PMID: 12186848
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.200207155
PMCID: PMC2174005

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