Focuses on NADPH production and antioxidant defense.
Curriculum Coverage
Biochemistry
• Role of pentose phosphate pathway
• Tissues where HMP shunt occurs
• Reactions of oxidative phase
• Reactions of non-oxidative phase
• Role of thiamine
• Similarities and differences between glycolysis and HMP pathway
• Functions of NADPH
• G6PD deficiency
• Regulation of HMP pathway