Glucose transport method

Many people are not very clear about how glucose is transported. In fact, this substance has a wide range of uses in medicine. The human body cannot lack glucose, otherwise the nutrition will become very unbalanced. In fact, many fruits in life contain glucose. If the glucose content in your body is relatively low, you can increase it by injection.

Glucose is produced industrially by hydrolysis of starch. In the 1960s, microbial enzyme method was used to produce glucose. This is a major innovation and has obvious advantages over acid hydrolysis. During production, the raw materials do not need to be refined, and no acid-resistant or pressure-resistant equipment is required. The sugar solution has no bitterness and has a high sugar yield.

Glucose is mainly used in medicine as a nutrient for injection (glucose injection).

In the food industry, glucose can be treated with isomerase to produce fructose, especially high fructose corn syrup containing 42% fructose, which has the same sweetness as sucrose and has become an important product in the current sugar industry.

Glucose is an indispensable nutrient for metabolism in living organisms. The heat released by its oxidation reaction is an important source of energy required for human life activities. It can be used directly in the food and pharmaceutical industries, as a reducing agent in the printing and dyeing leather industry, and glucose is often used as a reducing agent in the mirror industry and in the silver plating process of thermos flasks. Glucose is also used in large quantities in industry as a raw material to synthesize vitamin C (ascorbic acid).

Grape glucose is widely used clinically to provide the water and calories needed by patients with high fever, dehydration, coma or inability to eat. When a large amount of body fluid is lost, such as vomiting, diarrhea, severe blood loss, etc., 5% to 10% glucose and normal saline can be dripped intravenously to replenish water, salt and sugar. It can also be used for patients with hypoglycemia and drug poisoning.

Intravenous drip of 25% to 50% hypertonic solution can dehydrate tissues and cause transient diuresis due to its hyperosmotic effect. It can be used alternately with mannitol to treat cerebral edema, pulmonary edema and reduce intraocular pressure. Intravenous infusion of hypertonic glucose was used to treat hypoglycemia. When used in combination with insulin, it can promote the transfer of potassium into cells and is also one of the treatment measures for hyperkalemia.

D-glucose has the chemical properties of general aldose: under the action of oxidants, it produces gluconic acid, glucuronic acid or glucuronic acid; under the action of reducing agents, it produces sorbitol; under the action of weak bases, glucose can be converted into the enol form with two other hexoses with similar structures - fructose and mannose. Glucose can also combine with phenylhydrazine to form glucose diazone, which is different from other sugar diazones in crystal shape and melting point and can be used as a means of identifying glucose.