Article
Glucose as a Major Antioxidant: When, What for and Why It Fails?
2020-01-30
Abstract excerpt
A human organism depends on stable glucose blood levels in order to maintain the metabolic needs. Glucose is considered as the most important energy source and glycolysis is postulated as a backbone pathway. However, when glucose supply is limited, ketone bodies and amino acids can be used to produce enough ATP. In contrast, for the functioning of pentose phosphate pathway (PPP) glucose is essential and cannot be...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 5693e5c9-ba1b-5d8b-8a69-39495143e50f
- DOI
- 10.20944/preprints201912.0165.v2