HUMAN NUTRITION

Detailed explanation-1: -The hexose monophosphate shunt, also known as the pentose phosphate pathway, is a unique pathway used to create products essential in the body for many reasons. The HMP shunt is an alternative pathway to glycolysis and is used to produce ribose-5-phosphate and nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADPH).

Detailed explanation-2: -The pentose phosphate pathway is a metabolic pathway that occurs in the cytoplasm for the production of NADPH from NADP. In this pathway oxidation of glucose 6-phosphate takes place to produce pentoses. Thus it is also known as hexose monophosphate shunt.

Detailed explanation-3: -The glycolysis and pentose phosphate pathways (PPP) are tightly connected. The glucose entering the in cell membrane is rapidly phosphorylated by HK and converted to G-6-P. The G-6-P is metabolized either by the glycolytic pathway, generating pyruvate and lactate, or by PPP to produce NADPH.