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HMP Shunt in Pharmaceutical Biochemistry by Raja Hamood Khan is a document available to read on EtoBox.
The document introduces a lecture on the hexose monophosphate shunt (HMP shunt), an alternative pathway to glucose utilization beyond glycolysis and the TCA cycle. The HMP shunt is also known as the pentose phosphate pathway, direct oxidative pathway, or phosphogluconate shunt. It occurs primarily in adipose tissue, leukocytes, adrenal cortex, and lactating breast tissue. The key significance of the HMP shunt is that it generates pentose sugars needed for nucleotides and nucleic acids, interconverts hexoses
- Author
- Raja Hamood Khan
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- EN