glucose
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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
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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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