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glucose

[gloo-kohs] / ˈglu koʊs /
NOUN
blood sugar
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As glucose and sorbitol intake climbs, even people who carry beneficial sorbitol-degrading bacteria may eventually overwhelm those microbes' ability to keep up.

From Science Daily Sep. 6, 2026

Enzymes in the intestine can also produce it from glucose after a meal.

From Science Daily Sep. 6, 2026

For that reason, sorbitol production has historically been associated with diabetes, where blood glucose can reach high levels.

From Science Daily Sep. 6, 2026

The researchers found that radial glia depend heavily on the pentose phosphate pathway, a metabolic process that uses glucose to make materials needed by cells that are dividing rapidly.

From Science Daily Sep. 4, 2026

She broke out the sugar water to get glucose to the brain.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times

Sugars may be divided into two classes,—the sucroses, C12H22O11, and the glucoses, C6H12O6.

From An Introduction to Chemical Science by Rufus Phillips Williams




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