Patient #2: Marie is a 32-year-old mother of three complaining of fatigue and mu

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Patient #2: Marie is a 32-year-old mother of three complaining of fatigue and muscle cramps with exercise. She had always blamed her intolerance to exercise on her sedentary lifestyle. However, she recently joined a gym and after a week of aerobics classes went to her physician, who ordereda series of blood tests. The blood work came back with abnormal results, leading to her muscle biopsy and referral to the metabolic clinic Levels (+2: normal,-: decreased levels, ++ increased levels) Blood Metabolic Panel Blood Glucose Fructose-6-phosphate Fructose-1,6,bisphosphate 1,3-bisphosphoglycerate Pyruvate ATP Red Blood Cell Concentration

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5 Pyruvate is the compound used to test rbc for their ability to complete glycolysis.

6 Fructose 1-6 phosphate is the compound added to Maries cell to produce pyruvate

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