Mannose: A Sweet Option in the Treatment of Cancer and Inflammation

• Main Authors: Fang Nan (Author), Yutong Sun (Author), Hantian Liang (Author), Jingyang Zhou (Author), Xiao Ma (Author), Dunfang Zhang (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2022-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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As a natural sugar, mannose is a type of hexose that is abundant in many different types of fruits. Since mannose is rarely used for glycolysis in mammals, studies on the role of mannose have not attracted much attention. Glycosylation of specific proteins was thought to be the major function of man...