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Preface
Chapter 1 – Galactose: Chemical Structure, Dietary Sources and Clinical Significance (pp. 1-24)
Youjing Lv and Guangli Yu (Laboratory of Marine Drugs, Ministry of Education of China, Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Glycoscience and Glycotechnology School of Medicine and Pharmacy, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China)
Chapter 2 – Clinical Relevance of Galactose (pp. 25-46)
Tzi Bun Ng and Charlene Cheuk Wing Ng (School of Biomedical Sciences,Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, New Territories, Hong Kong, China)
Chapter 3 – Galactose: Diet and Its Implication in Galactosemia (pp. 47-74)
Ana C. Ribeiro, Maria J. Silva and Maria E. Figueira (Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal)
Chapter 4 – Galacto-Oligosaccharides Recent Progress on Research and Application As Prebiotics (pp. 75-106)
Sheryl Lozel Arreola, Montira Intanon, Ngoc Hung Pham, Dietmar Haltrich and Thu-Ha Nguyen (Food Biotechnology Laboratory, Department of Food Sciences and Technology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, (BOKU Wien), Vienna, Austria)
Chapter 5 – Galactose Configurations in Nature with Emphasis on the Biosynthesis of Galactofuranose in Glycans (pp. 107-134)
Carla Marino and Rosa M. de Lederkremer (CIHIDECAR-CONICET-UBA, Departamento de Química Orgánica, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Pabellon II, Ciudad Universitaria, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Chapter 6 – Regulation of the Galactose Operon in E. coli (pp. 135-174)
Dale E. A. Lewis and Amlanjyoti Dhar (Laboratory of Molecular Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, US)
Index