2021
Overview
Galactose is a simple sugar, or monosaccharide, with the same chemical formula as glucose but a different spatial arrangement of its atoms, making the two epimers of one another. It occurs most familiarly as one half of lactose, the disaccharide found in milk, where it is joined to glucose, and it is also a building block of many glycoproteins, glycolipids, gums, and other complex carbohydrates important to cell structure and signaling. In the body, galactose is converted to glucose through a metabolic pathway, and inherited disruptions of this pathway cause galactosemia. In the laboratory, D-galactose is widely used to model accelerated aging and oxidative stress in animal studies. Within the journal's coverage of new developments in chemistry, related work includes the synthesis of N-glycosyl amides from native carbohydrates and studies using D-galactose-induced models, reflecting interest in the chemistry, metabolism, and applications of this sugar. This page gathers peer-reviewed, open-access research relevant to galactose, its role in carbohydrate biochemistry, and its use in chemical synthesis and experimental models.
Research published in this journal
4 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.
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How this research is being cited
The 4 articles above have been cited 1 time in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.
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2025 · Journal of Medicine, University of Santo Tomas
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