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Disorders of Glucose Transport

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To date, five congenital defects of monosaccharide transporters are known (◘ Fig. 11.1). Their clinical picture depends on tissue-specific expression and substrate specificity of the affected transporter.

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  1. Department of Pediatrics, University Medical Centre Hamburg Eppendorf, Martinistrasse 52, 20246, Hamburg, Germany

    René Santer

  2. Children’s Hospital, Am Hasenkopf 1, 63739, Aschaffenburg, Germany

    Jörg Klepper

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  1. Department of Neurology Neurometabolic Unit, Hôpital Pitié Salpêtrière 47–83 Boulevard de l’Hôpital, Paris Cedex 13, 75651, Paris, France

    Jean-Marie Saudubray

  2. Laboratory of Physiological Chemistry de Duve Institute, University of Louvain Medical School, Avenue Hippocrate 75/39, 1200, Brussels, Belgium

    Georges van den Berghe

  3. Biochemical Genetics Unit Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Central Manchester University Hospitals St Mary’s Hospital, Oxford Road, M13 9WL, Manchester, UK

    John H. Walter

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Santer, R., Klepper, J. (2012). Disorders of Glucose Transport. In: Saudubray, JM., van den Berghe, G., Walter, J.H. (eds) Inborn Metabolic Diseases. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15720-2_11

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