pentose phosphate pathway (English, noun)
expansion: pentose phosphate pathway (uncountable)
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glosses: A metabolic pathway parallel to glycolysis that generates NADPH and pentoses as well as ribose 5-phosphate, the last one a precursor for the synthesis of nucleotides.
tags: uncountable
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