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“Despite the addition of isocaloric quantities of the sugars, cancer cells exposed to low glucose plus xylitol had retarded ATP generation and decreased activity of phosphofructokinase (PFK), the rate-limiting enzyme in glycolysis.”
Advances in experimental medicine and biology • 1989 | View Paper
“ Xylitol markedly decreased the ATP and Pi contents of the cells, but no change in the ATP/ADP x Pi ratio or the rate of oxygen consumption was found.”