And this pathway is the pentose phosphate pathway. Now the pentose phosphate pathway is very important for several reasons. Number one, what it does is it gives our cells away to basically produce a very important reducing agent that is used in many different types of pathways and reactions within our cells. And this reducing agent is known as NADPH, which stands for nicotine amide adenine Dinucleotide phosphate. Now NADPH is not the same thing as NADH. NADH is the molecule that is used along the electron transport chain.