Fructose

fructose /fruc·tose/ (frook´tos) a sugar, C6H12O6, found in honey and many sweet fruits; used as a fluid and nutrient replenisher.

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fruc·tose (frkts, frk-)

n.

A very sweet sugar occurring in many fruits and honey and used as a preservative for foodstuffs and as an intravenous nutrient. Also called fruit sugar, levulose.

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Fructose

A type of natural sugar found in many fruits, vegetables, and in honey.

Mentioned in: Hypoglycemia

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fructose

(fruk´tōs),
n a yellowish-to-white, crystalline water-soluble levorotatory ketose monosaccharide that is sweeter than sucrose and is found in honey, several fruits, and combined in many disaccharides and polysaccharides. Also called
fruit sugar and
levulose.

fructose intolerance,

n an inherited disorder marked by an absence of enzymes needed to metabolize fructose. Symptoms include sweating, tremors, confusion, and digestive distress with vomiting, and failure of infants to grow.

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fructose

a hexose sugar found in honey and many sweet fruits; called also levulose and fruit sugar. It is used in solution as a fluid and nutrient replenisher.

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fructose 1,6-bisphosphatase

key regulatory enzyme of gluconeogenesis.

fructose 1,6-bisphosphate aldolase

cleavage enzyme taking hexose-phosphates to triose-phosphates.

fructose 1,6-diphosphatase

a pacemaker or rate-limiting enzyme in the liver; participates in the control of the rate of hepatic metabolism.

fructose 2,6-bisphosphatase

part of multifunctional enzyme that regulates the concentration of the key positive allosteric effector of glycolysis, fructose 2,6-bisphosphate.

fructose 1-phosphate aldolase

cleaves fructose 1-phosphate to dihydroxyacetone phosphate; sometimes called aldolase B.

fructose 6-phosphate

key intermediate of glycolysis.

fructose tolerance test

a little used test of liver function.