title: Hexose monophosphate shunt enzymes in lung tumors from normal and glucose-6-phosphate-dehydrogenase-deficient subjects.
abstract: Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) and 6-phosphogluconate, dehydrogenase the key enzymes of the hexose monophosphate shunt pathway, were measured in both surrounding and tumoral lung tissues from normal and G6PD-deficient subjects. A significant increase of these enzymatic activities in tumoral tissue was found not only in G6PD-normal patients, but also in G6PD-deficient patients with very low or nonmeasurable G6PD activity in both erythrocytes and normal lung tissue.
authors.affiliation: Istituto di Farmacologia e Patologia Biochimica, Cagliari, Italia.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Dessì
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Batetta
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Cherchi
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Onnis
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pisano
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Pani
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D004912:Erythrocytes / Q000201:enzymology; D005260:Female; D005954:Glucosephosphate Dehydrogenase / Q000032:analysis*; D005955:Glucosephosphate Dehydrogenase Deficiency / Q000201:enzymology*; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000201:enzymology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010427:Pentose Phosphate Pathway; D010734:Phosphogluconate Dehydrogenase / Q000032:analysis*
chemical_list: D010734:Phosphogluconate Dehydrogenase; D005954:Glucosephosphate Dehydrogenase