Glucose appears in the urine in
diabetes mellitus
In pharmaceuticals, glucose it is called
dextrose
IUPAC:
d-glucose
Other names
Blood sugar, dextrose, d-glucose, grape sugar, corn sugar, C6H12O6
Glucose can exist in both a
straight chain and ring form
Is frequently in the form of liquid glucose which is used commercially in the manufacture of candy, carbonated beverages, ice cream, bakery products, and in the canning industry.
Dextrose
is obtained by the incomplete hydrolysis of starch also by controlled acid hydrolysis of starch in the US.
Liquid glucose
Glucose is both hexose and an aldose or an
aldohexose
The aldehyde group makes glucose a reducing sugar giving a (+) reaction with the
Fehling’s Test
normal concentration in the blood of dextrose
0.1%
Controlled enzymatic hydrolysis of starch
Obtained by: (D-GLUCOSE)
High-conversion hydrolysates are subjected to rigorous purification procedures to yield (blank) that 99.5 to 100% pure and suitable for parenteral use
crystalline dextrose
is a starch hydrolyzing enzyme that converts starch into sugars.
The amylase
USES OF GLUCOSE:
_____ can be given by mouth or enema, by sc inj
Nutrient
An _____ in dextrose injection, alcohol and dextrose inj., dextrose and NaCl inj., dextrose and NaCl tab, dopamine HCl, dextrose inj. And Kcl in dextrose inj.,
ingredient
Also present in an _____, each of which is an anticoagulant for the storage of whole blood.
anticoagulant citrate dextrose solution and in anticoagulant citrate phosphate dextrose solution
A monosaccharide that is less sweet than glucose and fructose
GALACTOSE
Molecular formula of galactose
C6H12O6
Sources:
dairy products, sugar beets, other gum and mucilages
It is a component of lactose and other oligosaccharides
GALACTOSE