RT Book, Section
A1 Santer, René
A2 Kline, Mark W.
SR Print(0)
ID 1182929341
T1 Disorders of Glucose Transporters
T2 Rudolph's Pediatrics, 23e
YR 2018
FD 2018
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9781259588594
LK accesspediatrics.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1182929341
RD 2024/04/25
AB D-Glucose  and  other  monosaccharides  are  hydrophilic  substances  that  cannot  easily  cross  the  lipophilic  bilayer  of  the  cell  membrane.  Since  carbohydrates  are  important  for  supplying  energy  to  essentially  all  cell  types,  specific  transport  mechanisms  have  evolved.  While  vesicle-associated  glucose  transport  has  been  described  fairly  recently,  transporter  proteins  have  been  known  for  years.  Such  proteins  are  embedded  into  the  cell  membrane  and  function  as  hydrophilic  pores  that  allow  cellular  uptake  and  release  and  transcellular  transport  of  monosaccharides.