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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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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 |