"This study shows how the concentration and type of carbohydrate source can affect various cell properties by modifying the flux of intermediates through carbohydrate-processing pathways. Alteration of the carbohydrate sources (major and minor) available to living systems can interfere with the equilibria between sugars and change many cell properties. This work is mostly concerned with pathways involved in the metabolism of fructose and its derivatives. ... This work brings into perspective the importance that carbohydrate metabolism and diet have on human health. The ingestion of high quantities of certain monosaccharides (e.g. fructose) may have detrimental effects on cellular health; others (such as sulfoquinovose), on the other hand, may be used as nutritional sources of inhibitors for carbohydrate pathways that are increased in many metabolic diseases."-From abstract.
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