Regulation of and intervention into the
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Heinz-Gerd Zimmer
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Article
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1996
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Springer
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English
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The capacity of the oxidative pentose pathway (PPP) in the heart is limited, since the activity of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G-6-PD), the first and regulating enzyme of this pathway, is very low. Two mechanisms are involved in the regulation of this pathway. Under normal conditions, G-6-PD