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glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency(medicine)
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glucose 1-phosphate(medicine)
d-glucose 1-phosphate(medicine)
glucose dehydrogenase(medicine)
glucose-6-phosphate isomerase(medicine)

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Forth (medicine)


forth


1. Forward; onward in time, place, or order; in advance from a given point; on to end; as, from that day forth; one, two, three, and so forth. "Lucas was Paul's companion, at the leastway from the sixteenth of the Acts forth." (Tyndale) "From this time forth, I never will speak word." (Shak) "I repeated the Ave Maria; the inquisitor bad me say forth; I said I was taught no more." (Strype)

2. Out, as from a state of concealment, retirement, confinement, nondevelopment, or the like; out into notice or view; as, the plants in spring put forth leaves. "When winter past, and summer scarce begun, Invites them forth to labour in the sun." (Dryden)

3. Beyond a (certain) boundary; away; abroad; out. "I have no mind of feasting forth to-night." (Shak)

4. Throughly; from beginning to end. And so forth, Back and forth, From forth. See And, Back, and From. Forth of, Forth from, out of To bring forth. See Bring.

Origin: AS. Forth, fr. For akin to D. Voort, G. Fort See Fore, For, and cf. Afford, Further, adv.

Source: Websters Dictionary


glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (medicine)


glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase
<enzyme> An NADP+ enzyme that catalyses the dehydrogenation (oxidation) of d-glucose-6-phosphate to 6-phospho-d-glucono-d-lactone, this reaction initiating the Dickens shunt.

Deficiency of this enzyme is the commonest disease-causing enzyme defect in humans affecting an estimated 400 million people.

The gene for this enzyme is on the X chromosome. Males with the enzyme deficiency develop haemolytic anaemia when red blood cells are exposed to oxidant drugs such as the antimalarial primaquine, the sulfonamide antibiotics or sulfones, naphthalene moth balls, or fava beans.

Synonym: Robison ester dehydrogenase, Zwischenferment.

Acronym: G6PD