Glucose: An energy currency and structural precursor in articular cartilage and bone with emerging roles as an extracellular signaling molecule and metabolic regulator

Frontiers in Endocrinology

Volumn 3, Issue DEC, 2012, Pages

  Mobasheri, Ali ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Articular cartilage; Bone; Extracellular signaling; Glucose; Glucose transport; Glucosensing; Hexokinase; Osteocalcin

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874403269     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16642392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fendo.2012.00153     Document Type: Review

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