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Previous Question (January, 2025) (submitted by Mustafa Barbhuiya)

A Type 1 glycogen storage disease results from a deficiency of glucose-6-phosphatase. This enzyme normally converts glucose-6-phosphate to glucose that can then exit the hepatocyte.

Why does hypoglycemia develop with fasting in type 1 glycogen storage disease?

A. Inability to release glucose from the liver

B. Glycogenolysis is impaired

C. There is a deficiency of cortisol and growth hormone

D. There is a deficiency of epinephrine and glucagon

E. Hyperinsulinism develops in type 1 glycogen storage disease

Answer

(No one submitted—really? Mustafa stumps you again!)

A. Inability to release glucose from the liver

Current Question

(submitted by Charles D. Hawker, Ph.D.)

Which Nobel Laureate in Chemistry is widely known—not for his Nobel Prize on quantum mechanics, or for his second Nobel, a Peace Prize for his anti-nuclear war efforts—but for his theory on using mega doses of Vitamin C to prevent and minimize the common cold?

Answer

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