Sweet solution: sugars to the rescue

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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Autor principal: Freeze, Hudson H.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Rockefeller University Press 2002
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2174005/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12186848
http://dx.doi.org/10.1083/jcb.200207155
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spelling pubmed-21740052008-05-01 Sweet solution: sugars to the rescue Freeze, Hudson H. J Cell Biol Comment 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. The Rockefeller University Press 2002-08-19 /pmc/articles/PMC2174005/ /pubmed/12186848 http://dx.doi.org/10.1083/jcb.200207155 Text en Copyright © 2002, The Rockefeller University Press This article is distributed under the terms of an Attribution–Noncommercial–Share Alike–No Mirror Sites license for the first six months after the publication date (see http://www.rupress.org/terms). After six months it is available under a Creative Commons License (Attribution–Noncommercial–Share Alike 4.0 Unported license, as described at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).
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