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Simplified schematic representation of glucose metabolism via glycolysis or via the ‘glycogen shunt’ illustrating how glucose units may be metabolized via incorporation into and subsequent hydrolysis from the branched glycogen molecule preceding metabolism to pyruvate and lactate, i.e. glycogenolysis. Glucose-6-P, glucose-6-phosphate; ETC, electron transport chain.
