Zellweger syndrome: biochemical procedures in diagnosis, prevention and treatment.

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journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Halai J

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphatidylethanolamine plasmalogen levels were determined in erythrocytes from controls and 13 patients with the cerebro-hepato-renal (Zellweger) syndrome. It was found that in Zellweger patients 20 weeks of age or younger, erythrocyte phosphatidylethanolamine plasmalogen levels were lowered whereas in older patient...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Wanders RJ,Purvis YR,Heymans HS,Bakkeren JA,Parmentier GG,van Eldere J,Eyssen H,van den Bosch H,Tager JM,Schutgens RB

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mucopolysaccharidoses (MPS) are a group of lysosomal storage diseases caused by mutations in lysosomal enzymes involved in degradation of glycosaminoglycans (GAGs). Patients with MPS grow poorly and become physically disabled due to systemic bone disease. While many of the major skeletal effects in mouse models for MP...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Rowan DJ,Tomatsu S,Grubb JH,Montaño AM,Sly WS

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alkaptonuria (AKU) is a rare genetic disease that affects the entire joint. Current standard of AKU treatment is palliative and little is known about its physiopathology. Neovascularization is involved in the pathogenesis of systemic inflammatory rheumatic diseases, a family of related disorders that includes AKU. Her...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Millucci L,Bernardini G,Marzocchi B,Braconi D,Geminiani M,Gambassi S,Laschi M,Frediani B,Galvagni F,Orlandini M,Santucci A

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Creatine transporter deficiency was discovered in 2001 as an X-linked cause of intellectual disability characterized by cerebral creatine deficiency. This review describes the current knowledge regarding creatine metabolism, the creatine transporter and the clinical aspects of creatine transporter deficiency. The cond...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： van de Kamp JM,Mancini GM,Salomons GS

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Techniques for studying metabolic events in vivo in patients with inborn errors are reviewed. Loading or provocation tests that have been used widely are insensitive and frequently non-specific. Compounds labelled with stable isotopes can be used to study enzyme kinetics and substrate turnover, providing more detailed...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Leonard JV,Thompson GN

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple sulphatase deficiency was studied in 3 siblings--one pair of monozygotic twins and their sister. The children's psychomotor development was arrested at the age of 18 to 24 months, and the hypotonic syndrome combined with signs of spasticity appeared. There was marked hepatosplenomegaly, conspicuously dry scal...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Nevsímalová S,Elleder M,Smíd F,Zemánková M

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biotinidase deficiency is an autosomal recessive metabolic disorder included in many newborn screening programmes. Prior to the introduction of screening for biotinidase deficiency in Sweden in 2002, the disorder was almost unknown, with only one case diagnosed clinically. Biotinidase activity was measured in dried bl...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Ohlsson A,Guthenberg C,Holme E,von Döbeln U

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 13.5-year-old boy with biotinidase deficiency was studied 8 days before and 5 months after biotin treatment by positron emission tomography (PET) and computerized electroencephalographic topography (CET). With biotin treatment there was a marked improvement in the presenting symptom of loss of visual acuity and a mo...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Lott IT,Lottenberg S,Nyhan WL,Buchsbaum MJ

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a 32-year-old patient who, from age 7 months, developed photophobia, left-eye ptosis and progressive muscular weakness. At age 7 years, she showed normal psychomotor development, bilateral ptosis and exercise-induced weakness with severe acidosis. Basal blood and urine lactate were normal, increasing dramat...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Quintana E,Pineda M,Font A,Vilaseca MA,Tort F,Ribes A,Briones P

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Triton X-100 solubilized leukocytes of 17 patients and 8 obligate carriers of X-linked recessive ichthyosis (XLI) the activity of arylsulphatase C (ASC) was determined and expressed as the ratio to beta-galactosidase activity. The ASC/beta-gal ratio of XLI patients is markedly decreased (range 0.07-0.48) in compari...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Herrmann FH,Grimm U,Hadlich J

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tetrahydrobiopterin (BH4) is an essential cofactor for the aromatic amino acid hydroxylases, alkylglycerol monooxygenase, and nitric oxide synthases (NOS). Inborn errors of BH4 metabolism lead to severe insufficiency of brain monoamine neurotransmitters while augmentation of BH4 by supplementation or stimulation of it...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Korner G,Scherer T,Adamsen D,Rebuffat A,Crabtree M,Rassi A,Scavelli R,Homma D,Ledermann B,Konrad D,Ichinose H,Wolfrum C,Horsch M,Rathkolb B,Klingenspor M,Beckers J,Wolf E,Gailus-Durner V,Fuchs H,Hrabě de Angelis M,

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are a number of reasons for choosing ornithine transcarbamylase (OTC) deficiency as a candidate for gene therapy: the gene has been cloned; the disorder is relatively common; the current clinical outcome is poor; and there are authentic animal models. In considering the development of gene therapy for OTC defici...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Raper SE,Wilson JM,Yudkoff M,Robinson MB,Ye X,Batshaw ML

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Garrod presented his concept of 'the inborn error of metabolism' in the 1908 Croonian Lectures to the Royal College of Physicians (London); he used albinism, alkaptonuria, cystinuria and pentosuria to illustrate. His lectures are perceived today as landmarks in the history of biochemistry, genetics and medicine. Garro...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Scriver CR

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Variations in the gene ACADS, encoding the mitochondrial protein short-chain acyl CoA-dehydrogenase (SCAD), have been observed in individuals with clinical symptoms. The phenotype of SCAD deficiency (SCADD) is very heterogeneous, ranging from asymptomatic to severe, without a clear genotype-phenotype correla...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Schmidt SP,Corydon TJ,Pedersen CB,Vang S,Palmfeldt J,Stenbroen V,Wanders RJ,Ruiter JP,Gregersen N

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the case of a boy with 5,10-methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase deficiency. The clinical features consisted of severe mental retardation, spasticity and seizures remaining static to 7 years of age followed by a phase of rapid deterioration and death at 7 1/2 years of age. The main biochemical findings were h...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Haan EA,Rogers JG,Lewis GP,Rowe PB

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma total homocysteine (tHcy) determination is used in the diagnosis of homocystinuria, in cobalamin and folate deficiency and in cardiovascular risk assessment. However, determination of tHcy includes many pitfalls which complicate the assessment of homocysteine status. In the present article, we review basic know...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Refsum H,Fiskerstrand T,Guttormsen AB,Ueland PM

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The substrate O-(alpha-L-idopyranosyluronic acid-2-sulphate)-(1 leads to 4)-2,5-anhydro-D-(3H-1) mannitol-6-sulphate was used at a final concentration of 50 mmol/l to measure the alpha-L-idurono-2-sulphate sulphatase activities of cell extracts, serum and amniotic fluid. Activities were measured after dialysis against...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Dean MF

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Menkes disease (MD) is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by a copper deficiency in the brain. It is caused by the defective intestinal absorption of copper resulting from a deficiency of a copper-transporting ATPase, ATP7A. This gives rise to an accumulation of copper in the intestine. The copper deficiency i...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Kodama H,Sato E,Gu YH,Shiga K,Fujisawa C,Kozuma T

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wilson disease (WD) is an autosomal recessive disorder of copper accumulation leading to liver and/or brain damage. In this paper, we describe the results of a pilot study of screening for WD using ceruloplasmin determinations in dried blood samples. Specimens were collected from children aged 1 to 6 years who were se...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Ohura T,Abukawa D,Shiraishi H,Yamaguchi A,Arashima S,Hiyamuta S,Tada K,Iinuma K

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolated sulfite oxidase deficiency (ISOD) is a life-threatening, autosomal recessive disease characterized by severe neurological impairment. As no long-term effective treatment is available, distinction from other treatable diseases, such as molybdenum cofactor deficiency (MoCD) type A, should be made. We reviewed 4...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Claerhout H,Witters P,Régal L,Jansen K,Van Hoestenberghe MR,Breckpot J,Vermeersch P

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serine deficiency disorders are rare defects in the biosynthesis of the amino acid L-serine. At present two disorders have been reported: 3-phosphoglycerate dehydrogenase deficiency and 3-phosphoserine phosphatase deficiency. These enzyme defects lead to severe neurological symptoms such as congenital microcephaly and...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： de Koning TJ

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Large neutral amino acids (LNAAs) have been used on a limited number of patients with phenylketonuria (PKU) with the purpose of decreasing the influx of phenylalanine (Phe) to the brain. In earlier studies on mice with PKU (ENU(2)/ENU(2)), LNAAs were given and a surprising decline in blood Phe concentrations was obser...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Matalon R,Michals-Matalon K,Bhatia G,Grechanina E,Novikov P,McDonald JD,Grady J,Tyring SK,Guttler F

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, we reported that baicalein 5,6,7-trimethyl ether (BTM), a flavonoid, is capable of activating fatty acid beta-oxidation in X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy (X-ALD) fibroblasts (FEBS Lett. 2005; 579: 409-414). The objective of this study was to clarify whether BTM activates peroxisomal and/or mitochondrial fatty...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Morita M,Kanai M,Mizuno S,Iwashima M,Hayashi T,Shimozawa N,Suzuki Y,Imanaka T

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For over two decades, nitisinone (NTBC) has been successfully used to manipulate the tyrosine degradation pathway and save the lives of many children with hereditary tyrosinaemia type 1. More recently, NTBC has been used to halt homogentisic acid accumulation in alkaptonuria (AKU) with evidence suggesting its efficacy...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Khedr M,Cooper MS,Hughes AT,Milan AM,Davison AS,Norman BP,Sutherland H,Jarvis JC,Fitzgerald R,Markinson L,Psarelli EE,Ghane P,Deutz NEP,Gallagher JA,Ranganath LR

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To date, inborn errors of neurotransmitters have been defined based on the classic concept of inborn error of metabolism (IEM), and they include defects in synthesis, catabolism, and transport pathways. However, the omics era is bringing insights into new diseases and is leading to an extended definition of IEM includ...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Tristán-Noguero A,García-Cazorla À

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cobalamin C (Cbl-C) defect is the most common inborn cobalamin metabolism error; it causes impaired conversion of dietary vitamin B12 into its two metabolically active forms, methylcobalamin and adenosylcobalamin. Cbl-C defect causes the accumulation of methylmalonic acid and homocysteine and decreased methionine synt...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Martinelli D,Deodato F,Dionisi-Vici C

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：: ...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Brooks ED,Kishnani PS,Koeberl DD

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four neonates with a positive phenylalanine screening test (Phe concentrations between 258 and 1250 micromol/L) were investigated further to differentiate between phenylalanine hydroxylase (PAH) deficiency and variant hyperphenylalaninaemia (HPA) forms. In patients 1 and 2 a tetrahydrobiopterin (BH4) load caused a sig...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Spaapen LJ,Bakker JA,Velter C,Loots W,Rubio-Gozalbo ME,Forget PP,Dorland L,De Koning TJ,Poll-The BT,Ploos van Amstel HK,Bekhof J,Blau N,Duran M

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycogen storage disease type 1a (von Gierke disease, GSD1a) is caused by the deficiency of microsomal glucose-6-phosphatase (G6Pase) activity. The cloning of G6Pase cDNA and characterization of the human G6Pase gene enabled the identification of the mutations causing GSD1a. Here we report on the clinical and biochemi...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Parvari R,Isam J,Moses SW

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00