Chapter 15 Further reading

An alternative pathway of glucose oxidation: The pentose phosphate pathway

• McMillan, D.C., Bolchoz, L.J.C., and Jollow, D.J. (2001). Favism: effect of divicine on rat erythrocyte sulfhydryl status, hexose monophosphate shunt activity, morphology, and membrane skeletal proteins. Toxicol. Sci., 62, 353–9.

• Horecker, B. L. (2002). The pentose phosphate pathway. J. Biol. Chem., 277, 47965–71.

Historical perspective in Reflections series to celebrate the centenary of the Journal of Biological Chemistry in 2005.

• Veech, R.L. (2003). A humble hexose monophosphate pathway metabolite regulates short- and long-term control of lipogenesis. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 100, 5578–80.

• Ho, H. et al. (2007). Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase—from oxidative stress to cellular functions and degenerative diseases. Redox Report, 12(3), 109–18.

• Riganti, C. et al. (2012). The pentose phosphate pathway: An antioxidant defense and a crossroad in tumor cell fate. Free Radical Biology and Medicine, 53(3), 421–36. 

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