abstract：:Animal models of inborn errors of metabolism are useful for investigating the pathogenesis associated with the corresponding human disease. Since the mechanisms involved in the pathophysiology of succinate semialdehyde dehydrogenase (SSADH) deficiency (Aldh5a1; OMIM 271980) are still not established, in the present st...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Latini A,Scussiato K,Leipnitz G,Gibson KM,Wajner M

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carnitine transporter deficiency (CTD) and holocarboxylase synthetase deficiency (HLCSD) are frequent in The Faroe Islands compared to other areas, and treatment is available for both disorders. In order to evaluate the feasibility of neonatal screening in The Faroe Islands we studied detection in the neonatal period ...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Lund AM,Joensen F,Hougaard DM,Jensen LK,Christensen E,Christensen M,Nørgaard-Petersen B,Schwartz M,Skovby F

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The introduction of tandem mass spectrometry has unquestionably been the most striking recent advance in newborn screening. A single test is applied for the simultaneous diagnosis of a number of disorders, making it possible to screen for some disorders that might otherwise have seemed too rare. Current screening is f...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Wilcken B

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:One major problem of using hypercholesterolaemia alone as a primary criterion for diagnosing familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH) is that 15-40% of relatives may be misdiagnosed because plasma lipid levels in FH heterozygotes overlap with those in the general population. SETTING:General Hospital/University o...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Widhalm K,Dirisamer A,Lindemayr A,Kostner G

更新日期：2007-04-01 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：:Mucopolysaccharidosis II (Hunter disease), a lysosomal storage disorder caused by a deficiency of iduronate-2-sulfatase (IDS), has variable clinical phenotypes. Nearly 300 different mutations have been identified in the IDS gene from patients with Hunter disease, but the correlation between the genotype and phenotype ...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Sukegawa-Hayasaka K,Kato Z,Nakamura H,Tomatsu S,Fukao T,Kuwata K,Orii T,Kondo N

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe two patients affected by Barth syndrome. Their symptoms became manifest on respectively the third and first day of their lives. Clinical presentation included poor sucking, lethargy, hypotonia, hypothermia and cardiomyopathy. Laboratory findings such as hypoglycaemia, metabolic acidosis, elevated transamin...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Donati MA,Malvagia S,Pasquini E,Morrone A,La Marca G,Garavaglia B,Toniolo D,Zammarchi E

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As more states adopt expanded newborn screening for metabolic disorders, the overall number of false positives increases. False-positive screening results have been associated with increased anxiety and stress in parents of infants who require follow-up testing, even after the infant's good health is confirmed. This a...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Hewlett J,Waisbren SE

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:5-Oxoprolinuria is primarily associated with inborn errors of the gamma-glutamyl cycle. In addition, transient 5-oxoprolinuria has been reported to occur in a variety of conditions, such as prematurity and malnutrition, and during medication. We report an unusual case of permanent 5-oxoprolinuria. The patient presente...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Ruijter GJ,Mourad-Baars PE,Ristoff E,Onkenhout W,Poorthuis BJ

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a series of 137 patients with methylmalonic acidaemia (MMA) and propionic acidaemia (PA) diagnosed since the early 1970s, we report in more detail 81 patients (51 MMA and 30 PA) diagnosed between 1988 and 2005. In this series, 14% of patients died at initial access revealing the disease before or despite treatment,...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Touati G,Valayannopoulos V,Mention K,de Lonlay P,Jouvet P,Depondt E,Assoun M,Souberbielle JC,Rabier D,Ogier de Baulny H,Saudubray JM

更新日期：2006-04-01 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：:This review surveys the potential application of gene therapy to metabolic diseases. Proof of principle has been achieved in the treatment of two inherited immunodeficiency conditions. A significant safety issue has also been observed. Several strategies are being experimentally tested for a number of metabolic diseas...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Fischer A,Hacein-Bey-Abina S,Cavazzana-Calvo M

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Massive production and accumulation of a single abnormal protein may constitute a major toxic burden for the cell and even compromise the organism's long-term viability. Consequently, adaptation and survival have forced evolution to create 'quality control' mechanisms that detect, monitor, and often degrade such abnor...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Amaral MD

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:3-Hydroxy-3-methylglutaric aciduria is a rare autosomal recessive genetic disorder that affects ketogenesis and leucine metabolism. The disease is caused by mutations in the gene coding for 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-coenzyme A lyase (HL). To date 26 different mutations have been described. A (betaalpha)(8) TIM barrel...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Mir C,Lopez-Viñas E,Aledo R,Puisac B,Rizzo C,Dionisi-Vici C,Deodato F,Pié J,Gomez-Puertas P,Hegardt FG,Casals N

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycine encephalopathy, or nonketotic hyperglycinaemia (NKH; Mckusick 238300) is a severe autosomal recessive disease due to a defect in the glycine cleavage system (GCS), which is a complex of four subunits: P-, T-, H- and L-proteins. A P-protein (glycine decarboxylase or GLDC) deficiency was reported in about 80% of...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Conter C,Rolland MO,Cheillan D,Bonnet V,Maire I,Froissart R

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical problems, dietary management and biochemical monitoring over a 40-year period of the longest-surviving patient with maple syrup urine disease are described. Her case illustrates that a good outcome can be obtained with early diagnosis and institution of a diet restricted in branched-chain amino acids. Cha...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： le Roux C,Murphy E,Lilburn M,Lee PJ

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adult-onset glycogen storage disease type II (GSD II) (McKusick 232300) is a progressive disabling myopathy. At present there is no treatment of proven clinical efficacy. Enzyme replacement therapy may in the future provide benefit but it will be costly and is not yet freely available. L-Alanine, a simple and relative...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Mundy HR,Williams JE,Cousins AJ,Lee PJ

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lysinuric protein intolerance (LPI) is a disorder of dibasic amino acid transport secondary to mutation of the SLC7A7 gene characterized by renal failure, pulmonary alveolar proteinosis, lupus-like autoimmune symptoms and usually increased plasma citrulline. In order to better understand the underlying mechanism, we s...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Mannucci L,Emma F,Markert M,Bachmann C,Boulat O,Carrozzo R,Rizzoni G,Dionisi-Vici C

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with a severe neonatal variant of 3-methylcrotonyl-CoA carboxylase (MCC) deficiency is reported. The first child of healthy consanguineous Turkish parents presented on the second day of life with dehydration, cyanosis, no sucking, generalized muscular hypotonia, encephalopathy, respiratory depression requiri...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Baykal T,Gokcay GH,Ince Z,Dantas MF,Fowler B,Baumgartner MR,Demir F,Can G,Demirkol M

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have identified a common novel mutation (Q354X) in the argininosuccinate lyase (ASL) gene in Saudi patients with argininosuccinic aciduria (ASAuria; McKusick 207900). The two index patients were siblings, had a neonatal onset of the disease and were diagnosed based on the clinical presentation and confirmed by anal...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Al-Sayed M,Alahmed S,Alsmadi O,Khalil H,Rashed MS,Imtiaz F,Meyer BF

更新日期：2005-01-01 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：:The CLN3 gene is involved in juvenile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis (JNCL), or Batten-Spielmeyer-Vogt disease, a severe hereditary neurodegenerative lysosomal storage disorder characterized by progressive disease pathology, with loss of vision as the first symptom. Another characteristic of JNCL is the lysosomal accu...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： de Voer G,van der Bent P,Rodrigues AJ,van Ommen GJ,Peters DJ,Taschner PE

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Retinitis pigmentosa can occur as a complication of mevalonate kinase deficiency. This may be due to the unique isoprenoid metabolism in the retina. Early detection requires awareness on the part of the treating physician. ...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Balgobind B,Wittebol-Post D,Frenkel J

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study reports three novel mutations of the methionine adenosyltransferase (MAT) lA gene and confirms that hyperhomocysteinaemia may be a characteristic finding in MAT I/III deficiency. Thus, MAT I/III deficiency is important in the differential diagnoses of hyperhomocysteinaemia, which may lead to clinical compli...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Linnebank M,Lagler F,Muntau AC,Röschinger W,Olgemöller B,Fowler B,Koch HG

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four myopathic patients with complex I deficiency followed diets containing 55 energy per cent (En%) as fat or 25 En% as fat, both for three weeks. Maximal workload and muscle force were not different on either diet. Exercise endurance time, oxygen consumption and lactate levels were also not different, but one patien...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： de Meer K,Roef MJ,de Klerk JB,Bakker HD,Smit GP,Poll-The BT

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High lactate concentrations occur in type I glycogen storage disease (GSD) whenever glycogenolysis occurs. Not only does hyperlactataemia cause acute clinical deterioration, but chronic lactate elevations have also been associated with many of the long-term complications in GSD. A portable finger-stick blood lactate m...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Saunders AC,Feldman HA,Correia CE,Weinstein DA

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fabry disease is an inherited lysosomal storage disease caused by deficiency of alpha-galactosidase A. Enzyme replacement therapy for this multisystem progressive disease has been available only since 2001. We here report the first known successful pregnancy of a female patient receiving such therapy. ...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Wendt S,Whybra C,Kampmann C,Teichmann E,Beck M

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cholesterol is known to be a significant constituent of the central nervous system. It also plays an important role in developmental pathways to form the human brain, such as the Sonic Hedgehog pathway. Disturbances in the formation of cholesterol may therefore be expected to cause brain malformations and brain dysfun...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Hennekam RC

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Menkes disease (MNK) is a lethal, X-linked recessive disorder of copper metabolism dominated by neurodegenerative symptoms and connective tissue disturbances. The incidence of MNK in Asia is not known. Most patients die by the age of 3 years if adequate treatment is not carried out. Early parenteral administration of ...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Gu YH,Kodama H,Shiga K,Nakata S,Yanagawa Y,Ozawa H

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fabry disease (McKusick 301500) is an X-linked lysosomal storage disorder due to deficient alpha-galactosidase A activity, which leads to accumulation of glycosphingolipids, especially in vascular smooth-muscle and endothelial cells. The effect of this accumulation on peripheral and cardiac vascular function is poorly...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Kalliokoski RJ,Kalliokoski KK,Sundell J,Engblom E,Penttinen M,Kantola I,Raitakari OT,Knuuti J,Nuutila P

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Untreated pregnancies and their outcomes were studied in 10 women with histidinaemia and their 26 pregnancies. The mean maternal assigned histidine level was 727+/-186 micromol/L (range 484-1,053). Six women had classic histidinaemia (assigned level >700 micromol/L) and the remaining four had mild (atypical) histidina...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Levy HL,Yu JJ,Waisbren SE

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Organic acidurias represent a group of inherited disorders resulting from deficient activity of specific enzymes of the catabolism of amino acids, carbohydrates or lipids, leading to tissue accumulation of one or more carboxylic (organic) acids. Patients affected by organic acidurias predominantly present neurological...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Wajner M,Latini A,Wyse AT,Dutra-Filho CS

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Low-density lipoprotein receptor (LDLR) is a cell-surface glycoprotein that mediates specific uptake and catabolism of plasma LDL. Mutations located in the coding region of the LDLR gene affect the structure and function of the protein and cause familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH). Mutations in the regulatory regions ...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Francová H,Trbusek M,Zapletalová P,Kuhrová V

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:GM(2) gangliosidoses are a group of panethnic lysosomal storage diseases in which GM(2) ganglioside accumulates in the lysosome due to a defect in one of three genes, two of which encode the alpha- or beta-subunits of beta- N -acetylhexosaminidase (Hex) A. A small inframe deletion mutation in the catalytic domain of t...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Sinici I,Tropak MB,Mahuran DJ,Ozkara HA

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glutaric aciduria type I is an inborn error of organic acid metabolism that demonstrates a particular temporal vulnerability (acute encephalopathic episodes in infancy) and a spatial vulnerability (acute striatal necrosis, focused on the putamen). Excitotoxic mechanisms involving 3-hydroxyglutaric acid as the major ne...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Varadkar S,Surtees R

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-one patients have been diagnosed with glutaric aciduria type I over a 16-year period in the Republic of Ireland, 11 following clinical presentation and 10 following a high-risk screen. Nineteen have been managed with diet. Eight patients have died, of whom 7 were diagnosed clinically. Six had dystonic and one s...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Naughten ER,Mayne PD,Monavari AA,Goodman SI,Sulaiman G,Croke DT

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After a brief overview on CDG, this workshop concentrated on the experience with (mostly) known CDG in a European country (the Czech Republic) and on the Australasian experience, on recent developments regarding congenital muscular dystrophies due to O-mannoslyglycan assembly defects, and on new presentations of CDG. ...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Jaeken J

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydroxyproline has the same integer molecular weight as leucine and isoleucine and is quantified with these by tandem mass spectrometry. An infant was diagnosed with hyperhydroxyprolinaemia following further evaluation of an elevated "leucine" level in newborn screening by tandem mass spectrometry. ...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Baykal T,Karaaslan I,Gokcay G,Demir F,Laleli Y,Demirkol M

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sandhoff disease is caused by the defective activity of the lysosomal enzyme beta-hexosaminidase, resulting in accumulation of the glycolipids, GA2 and GM2. Niemann-Pick A/B disease is caused by the defective activity of lysosomal acid sphingomyelinase resulting in sphingomyelin accumulation. Pulmonary complications h...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Buccoliero R,Ginzburg L,Futerman AH

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A striking elevation of plasma chitotriosidase activity, greater than 150 times the normal median value, was found in two galactosialidosis patients. Furthermore, increased plasma chitotriosidase activity, 10-53 times the normal median value, was also observed in fucosidosis, glycogen storage disease type IV, Alagille...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Michelakakis H,Dimitriou E,Labadaridis I

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00