TY  - CHAP
M1  - Book, Section
TI  - CARBOHYDRATES
A1  - Janson, Lee W.
A1  - Tischler, Marc E.
PY  - 2018
T2  - The Big Picture: Medical Biochemistry
AB  - Carbohydrates  are  vastly  important  in  human  biology,  including  roles  as  a  major  energy  source,  structural  molecules  when  combined  with  other  carbohydrates,  proteins,  and  other  molecules,  and  binding  and  signaling  between  molecules  and  cells.  As  a  result  of  all  these  important  functions,  carbohydrate  biochemistry  is  involved  in  a  large  number  of  disease  states.  Although  multiple  carbohydrates  exist,  only  a  few  sugar  molecules  and  polysaccharides  are  important  to  human  physiology  (e.g.  only  eight  different  carbohydrates  are  found  as  constituents  of  glycoproteins  and  glycolipids).  However,  a  number  of  additional  molecules  created  by  linkages  of  carbohydrates  to  proteins  play  various  roles  in  cell–cell  interactions  and  biological  structures.  
SN  - 
PB  - McGraw-Hill Education
CY  - New York, NY
Y2  - 2024/04/19
UR  - accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1152117932
ER  -