Glycogen, which serves as a major energy reserve in cells, is a large, branched polymer of glucose molecules. We describe a patient who had muscle weakness, associated with the depletion of glycogen ...

Optical densitometry (OD) of the cultures also indicated a dose-dependent rapid decrease in cell proliferation as revealed by the MTS assay (Figure 2). CP-320626 and 2-DOG-treated cultures showed ...

Researchers discover that glycogen and N-linked glycans accumulate in fibrotic regions of the lung and may be important for therapy development. Ramon Sun, a biochemist at the University of Florida ...

This press release is also available in Spanish. The classic model for explaining the biosynthesis of starch in plant leaves has been seriously called in to question. While to date the accepted belief ...

A surprising discovery about how brain cells handle sugar could shift how scientists approach dementia and Alzheimer’s treatments. In a new study published in Nature Metabolism, researchers uncovered ...

Scientists at the University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center say they have made a discovery that solves a mystery and identified a potentially novel avenue in preclinical models to treat non-small ...