abstract：:Aspartylglycosaminuria (AGU) is a lysosomal storage disease caused by deficient activity of glycosylasparaginase (AGA), and characterized by motor and mental retardation. Enzyme replacement therapy (ERT) in adult AGU mice with AGA removes the accumulating substance aspartylglucosamine from and reverses pathology in ma...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Dunder U,Valtonen P,Kelo E,Mononen I

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Achieving the goals of newborn screening is, as for any screening, a balancing act: getting the maximum benefit from screening while producing the minimum harm. The advent of "expanded" newborn screening, with a large number of disorders detectable using a single test, has also posed problems, not new, but now more ob...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Wilcken B

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interest in newborn screening (NBS) for lysosomal storage disorders (LSDs) has increased significantly due to newly developed enzyme replacement therapy (ERT), the need for early diagnosis, and advances in technical developments. Since the central nervous system cannot be treated by ERT, neuronopathic LSDs are general...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Hwu WL,Chien YH,Lee NC

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this review is to describe neurological phenotypes associated with lysosomal storage diseases (LSDs), focusing on features arising from primary neuronal involvement. Clinical presentation, progression and genetic data, are discussed in detail in Part 2, the electronic material. Main features are summari...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Jardim LB,Villanueva MM,de Souza CF,Netto CB

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcobalamin (transcobalamin II, TC) transports plasma vitamin B(12) (cobalamin, Cbl) into cells. TC deficiency is a rare autosomal recessive disorder causing intracellular Cbl depletion, which in turn causes megaloblastic bone marrow failure, accumulation of homocysteine and methylmalonic acid, and methionine deple...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Schiff M,Ogier de Baulny H,Bard G,Barlogis V,Hamel C,Moat SJ,Odent S,Shortland G,Touati G,Giraudier S

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mucopolysaccharidoses are autosomal and recessive lysosomal storage disorders caused by the deficiency of a lysosomal enzyme involved in glycosaminoglycan catabolism. The Sanfilippo type A disease (MPS III A) results from sulfamidase deficiency, which leads to accumulation of heparan sulfate, whereas Sly disease (MPS ...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Arfi A,Richard M,Gandolphe C,Scherman D

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ultrastructural study of skin biopsies in two cases of Gaucher disease (GD) patients (types II and III) revealed hitherto unknown alteration of the blood capillary endothelial cells (ECs) featured by hypertrophy and numerous subplasmalemmal microvesicles underneath both the apical and basal membranes. There was also p...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Hůlková H,Poupetová H,Harzer K,Mistry P,Aerts JM,Elleder M

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe three patients with congenital disorder of glycosylation (CDG) type Ia, all of whom had persistent hyperinsulinaemic hypoglycaemia responding to diazoxide therapy as a common feature. The first patient, an infant girl, presented with recurrent vomiting, failure to thrive, liver impairment, hypothyroidism a...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Shanti B,Silink M,Bhattacharya K,Howard NJ,Carpenter K,Fietz M,Clayton P,Christodoulou J

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hearing loss and tinnitus are common symptoms in Fabry disease and increase in prevalence with age. This study aimed to provide an epidemiological description of hearing impairment and tinnitus in children with Fabry disease in the Fabry Outcome Survey (FOS), an international database to assess the natural h...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Keilmann A,Hajioff D,Ramaswami U,FOS Investigators.

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hurler-Scheie syndrome is caused by alpha-l-iduronidase deficiency. Enzyme replacement therapy (ERT) can improve physical capacity and reduces organomegaly. However, the effect on bradytrophic connective tissue is limited. As intravenously administered enzyme cannot cross the blood-brain barrier, the therapy of choice...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Illsinger S,Lücke T,Hartmann H,Mengel E,Müller-Forell W,Donnerstag F,Das AM

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deficiency of lysosomal α-L-iduronidase results in systemic accumulation of glycosaminoglycans (GAGs). Cardiac lesions due to accumulation of GAGs include hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, valvular insufficiency/stenosis, and coronary artery stenosis due to intimal proliferation. Cardiac dysfunction is one of the most comm...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Yano S,Moseley K,Pavlova Z

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Danon disease is an X-linked disorder resulting from mutations in the lysosome-associated membrane protein-2 (LAMP2) gene. We report a male patient with skeletal myopathy, mental retardation, and massive hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy necessitating heart transplantation. Immunohistochemistry of skeletal muscl...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Regelsberger G,Höftberger R,Pickl WF,Zlabinger GJ,Körmöczi U,Salzer-Muhar U,Luckner D,Bodamer OA,Mayr JA,Muss WH,Budka H,Bernheimer H

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using Guthrie Biological Inhibition Assay, 4963 mentally retarded individuals housed in 31 cities and towns across the country were screened for PKU. The average prevalence of classical PKU in the study population was 2.1%, which is higher than that reported for most mentally retarded populations in other countries pr...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Ghiasvand NM,Aledavood A,Ghiasvand R,Seyedin Borojeny F,Aledavood AR,Seyed S,Miner W,Saeb Taheri GR

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To study the incidence of galactosaemia in the state of São Paulo and the benefit/cost (B/C) ratio of the introduction of neonatal screening for galactosaemia, comparing it with a selective approach. METHODS:An enzymatic-colorimetric assay was used for the screening of total galactose (TG) in a sample of 10...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Camelo JS Jr,Fernandes MI,Maciel LM,Scrideli CA,Santos JL,Camargo AS Jr,Passador CS,Leite PC,Resende DR,de Souza LO,Giugliani R,Jorge SM

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with MPS II often present with limitations to functional mobility. With the advent of enzyme replacement therapy (ERT), robust assessment tools are important to assess response to treatment. The aim of this study was to see if the GAITRite™ system (electronic pressure sensitive walkway) could identify any cha...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Wood M,Cleary MA,Alderson L,Vellodi A

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The carnitine ester spectrum was studied using ESI tandem mass spectrometry in a 2.5-year-old male Roma child with homozygous deletion of 844C of the SLC22A5 gene, presenting with hepatopathy and cardiomyopathy. Besides the dramatic decrease of plasma free carnitine (1.38 vs 32.7 mumol/L in controls) all plasma carnit...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Komlósi K,Magyari L,Talián GC,Nemes E,Káposzta R,Mogyorósy G,Méhes K,Melegh B

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expanded programmes of newborn screening permit early diagnosis in time to prevent serious complications. These programmes have begun to detect patients who might otherwise remain asymptomatic. An additional confounding variable is the positive screen that results from maternal rather than neonatal disease. This was t...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Nyhan WL,Willis M,Barshop BA,Gangoiti J

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been suggested that the very low incidence of atherosclerosis in glycogen storage disease type Ia (GSD Ia) subjects might be attributed to elevated levels of uric acid, one of the potent low molecular- weight antioxidants found in plasma. The present communication describes a use of two analytical methods-cycli...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Koren E,Lipkin J,Klar A,Hershkovitz E,Ginsburg I,Kohen R

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objectives Isolated methylmalonic acidurias (MMAurias) are caused by deficiency of methylmalonyl-CoA mutase or by defects in the synthesis of its cofactor 5'-deoxyadenosylcobalamin. The aim of this study was to evaluate which parameters best predicted the long-term outcome. Methods Standardized questionnaires were sen...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Hörster F,Garbade SF,Zwickler T,Aydin HI,Bodamer OA,Burlina AB,Das AM,De Klerk JBC,Dionisi-Vici C,Geb S,Gökcay G,Guffon N,Maier EM,Morava E,Walter JH,Schwahn B,Wijburg FA,Lindner M,Grünewald S,Baumgartner MR,Kölke

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The content of coenzyme Q(10) (CoQ(10)) was examined in skin fibroblasts of 10 patients with mevalonic aciduria (MVA) and of 22 patients with methylmalonic aciduria (MMA). Patients with these inborn errors of metabolism are thought to be at risk for CoQ(10) depletion either by direct inhibition of the proximal pathway...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Haas D,Niklowitz P,Hörster F,Baumgartner ER,Prasad C,Rodenburg RJ,Hoffmann GF,Menke T,Okun JG

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mucopolysaccharidosis type II (MPS II or Hunter syndrome) is a progressive, multisystemic disease caused by a deficiency of iduronate-2-sulfatase. Patients with the severe form of the disease have cognitive impairment and typically die in the second decade of life. Patients with the less severe form do not experience ...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Jones SA,Almássy Z,Beck M,Burt K,Clarke JT,Giugliani R,Hendriksz C,Kroepfl T,Lavery L,Lin SP,Malm G,Ramaswami U,Tincheva R,Wraith JE,HOS Investigators.

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Aromatic L-amino acid decarboxylase (AADC) deficiency is a disorder of biogenic amine metabolism resulting in generalized combined deficiency of serotonin, dopamine and catecholamines. Main clinical features are developmental delay, muscular hypotonia, dystonia, oculogyric crises and additional extraneurolog...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Manegold C,Hoffmann GF,Degen I,Ikonomidou H,Knust A,Laass MW,Pritsch M,Wilichowski E,Hörster F

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lysosomal disease represents a large group of more than 50 clinically recognized conditions resulting from inborn errors of metabolism affecting the organelle known as the lysosome. The lysosome is an integral part of the larger endosomal/lysosomal system, and is closely allied with the ubiquitin-proteosomal and autop...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Walkley SU

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic disorders of purine and pyrimidine (PP) metabolism are under-reported and infrequently mentioned in the general literature, as well as in reviews dedicated to other inborn errors of metabolism. Owing to limited awareness, relatively recent recognition, as well as considerable phenotypic variation, these disord...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Jurecka A

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:L-2-hydroxyglutaric aciduria (L-2-HGA) is a metabolic disease with an autosomal recessive mode of inheritance. It was first reported in 1980. Patients with this disease have mutations in both alleles of the L2HDGH gene. The clinical presentation of individuals with L-2-HGA is somewhat variable, but affected individual...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Sass JO,Jobard F,Topçu M,Mahfoud A,Werlé E,Cure S,Al-Sannaa N,Alshahwan SA,Bataillard M,Cimbalistiene L,Grolik C,Kemmerich V,Omran H,Sztriha L,Tabache M,Fischer J

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a 5-year-old child carrying polymerase gamma (POLG1) mutations, but strikingly normal oxidative phosphorylation analysis in muscle, fibroblasts and liver. Mutations in POLG1 have so far been described in children with severe combined oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) deficiencies and with the classical Alpe...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： de Vries MC,Rodenburg RJ,Morava E,Lammens M,van den Heuvel LP,Korenke GC,Smeitink JA

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gaucher disease is a lysosomal storage disorder caused by a deficiency of the enzyme acid beta-glucosidase. The most prevalent mutant genotype in type I Gaucher disease, N370S/N370S, is commonly thought to confer a mild phenotype presenting in adulthood. To characterize a subset of more severely affected N370S homozyg...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Fairley C,Zimran A,Phillips M,Cizmarik M,Yee J,Weinreb N,Packman S

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA sequence analyses have become a major component in the diagnostic work-up of patients; however, limited consideration appears to be given to the possibility that reported results may in fact be wrong. Over the last four years we have carried out an External Quality Assessment scheme for mutation analysis in phenyl...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Zschocke J,Aulehla-Scholz C,Patton S

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a Brazilian girl who was diagnosed as having galactosialidosis (deficiency of protective protein/cathepsin A; PPCA deficiency; GS) at the age of 2 years 6 months during an extensive investigation for renal failure. She was found to have low levels of both β-galactosidase and α-neuraminidase in fibroblasts an...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Kiss A,Zen PR,Bittencourt V,Paskulin GA,Giugliani R,d'Azzo A,Schwartz IV

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on our 6-year experience of expanded newborn screening by tandem mass spectrometry in Tuscany (Italy), the first Italian Region to screen all newborns for more than 40 inborn errors of metabolism: organization, diseases observed and updates on methods to reduce false-positive and false-negative tests are des...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： la Marca G,Malvagia S,Casetta B,Pasquini E,Donati MA,Zammarchi E

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 32 year-old asymptomatic male came to our attention with a 21-year history, documented elsewhere, of puzzling increases in his serum transaminase level. At first, very low serum ceruloplasmin level suggested Wilson disease. Two liver biopsies showed mild portal inflammation, steatosis and mild fibrosis. Further inve...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Calvo PL,Pagliardini S,Baldi M,Pucci A,Sturiale L,Garozzo D,Vinciguerra T,Barbera C,Jaeken J

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebrotendinous xanthomatosis (CTX) OMIM#213700 is a rare disorder of bile acid synthesis caused by deficiency of the enzyme sterol 27-hydroxylase. It results in deficiency of bile acids and accumulation of abnormal bile alcohols and accelerated cholesterol synthesis. CTX usually presents in the second or third decad...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Pierre G,Setchell K,Blyth J,Preece MA,Chakrapani A,McKiernan P

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leigh syndrome is a neurodegenerative disorder of infancy or childhood generally due to mutations in nuclear or mitochondrial genes involved in mitochondrial energy metabolism. We performed linkage analysis in an Ashkenazi Jewish (AJ) family without consanguinity with three affected children. Linkage to microsatellite...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Anderson SL,Chung WK,Frezzo J,Papp JC,Ekstein J,DiMauro S,Rubin BY

更新日期：2008-12-01 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：: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：:Enzyme defects in the mitochondrial fatty acid oxidation (FAO) are a large family of inherited metabolic disease well characterized clinically and genetically, but for which pharmacological strategies remain limited. It is now well established that regulation of genes involved in mitochondrial FAO is under control of ...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Djouadi F,Bastin J

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a new constellation of clinical features consisting of hypermanganesaemia, liver cirrhosis, an extrapyramidal motor disorder and polycythaemia in a 12 year-old girl born to consanguineous parents. Blood manganese levels were >3000 nmol/L (normal range <320 nmol/L) and MRI revealed signal abnormalities of the...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Tuschl K,Mills PB,Parsons H,Malone M,Fowler D,Bitner-Glindzicz M,Clayton PT

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spastic paraparesis is a general term describing progressive stiffness and weakness in the lower limbs caused by pyramidal tract lesions. This clinical situation is frequently encountered in adult neurology. The diagnostic survey is usually limited to searching for acquired causes (spinal cord compression, inflammator...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Sedel F,Fontaine B,Saudubray JM,Lyon-Caen O

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:This study reports the first evaluation of therapeutic response in Romanian patients with Gaucher disease type I, after therapy with Cerezyme recently became available in our country. PATIENTS AND METHODS:24 patients (11-50 years) received Cerezyme 20-60 U/kg every two weeks for at least 18 months. Haemoglobin, pl...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Grigorescu Sido P,Drugan C,Cret V,Al-Kzouz C,Denes C,Coldea C,Zimmermann A

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Employing lymphoblasts derived from two non related patients with L-2-HG aciduria, we examined the origin of L-2-hydroxyglutaric acid (L-2-HG) through incubation with [(13)C6]glucose and [(2)H5]glutamic acid. Formation of labelled 2-ketoglutaric acid (2-KG), citric acid and L-2-HG was determined by GC-MS. The quantita...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Struys EA,Gibson KM,Jakobs C

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00