OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 12294

trehalose

/ˈtɹiːhələʊz/
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trehalosa
A disaccharide formed from two glucose units; it is an isomer of maltose.
The most important of these is the common sugar furnished by the sugar cane, hence termed cane sugar, related to which are some others of small importance, viz., trehalose, melezit…
The researchers fed a natural sugar called trehalose to mice genetically engineered to have a severe version of Huntington's disease.
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