abstract：:A patient with hyperuricaemia and gouty arthritis due to a new variant of hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase is described. The mutation (I136T, HPRT Marseille) is in the phosphoribosylpyrophosphate-binding region of the gene and leads to almost total loss of enzyme activity in erythrocytes, with 5% in lymp...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Dussol B,Ceballos-Picot I,Aral B,Castera V,Philip N,Berland Y

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:What next? The Human Genome Project signifies complexity rather than simplification in the relationship between genotype and phenotype. Genotypes are embedded in genomes. Individuality in phenotypes is embedded in components of the phenome (transcriptome, metabolome, proteome, etc.). The phenome, its layers, and its n...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Scriver CR

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a retrospective electron-microscopical study of liver biopsies and fibroblast cultures of 19 patients with congenital disorders of glycosylation (CDG) of different subtypes. A constant finding in liver biopsies of all CDG-I cases was that of abnormal lysosomal lamellar inclusions in the hepatocytes, which we...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Grünewald S,De Vos R,Jaeken J

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report D-2-hydroxyglutaric aciduria in a neonate with intracranial haemorrhage and absence of the corpus callosum. D-2-hydroxyglutaric acid was confirmed by specific chiral derivatization gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. Absence of the corpus callosum and spontaneous neonatal intracranial haemorrhage should ra...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Wang X,Jakobs C,Bawle EV

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of pyruvate dehydrogenase E3 binding protein deficiency is reported in a 24-year-old male with encephalomyopathy. Blood lactate was only minimally elevated, as was alanine. ...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Hargreaves IP,Heales SJ,Briddon A,Lee PJ,Hanna MG,Land JM

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carnitine palmitoyltransferase type II (CPT II) deficiency has three basic phenotypes, late-onset muscular (mild), infantile/juvenile hepatic (intermediate) and severe neonatal. We have measured fatty acid oxidation and CPT II activity and performed mutation studies in 24 symptomatic patients representing the full cli...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Olpin SE,Afifi A,Clark S,Manning NJ,Bonham JR,Dalton A,Leonard JV,Land JM,Andresen BS,Morris AA,Muntoni F,Turnbull D,Pourfarzam M,Rahman S,Pollitt RJ

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to evaluate systematically the effect of the free use of fruits and vegetables containing an intermediate amount of phenylalanine (51-100 mg/100 g) on the biochemical control in children with phenylketonuria (PKU). Fifteen subjects with PKU, with a median age of 6 years (range 1-24 years) were studied...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： MacDonald A,Rylance G,Davies P,Asplin D,Hall SK,Booth IW

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma and erythrocyte fatty acids have been measured in 9 patients with long-chain 3-hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency being treated with a low-fat diet. No significant abnormality was detected and in particular docosahexaenoic acid was not deficient. ...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Lund AM,Dixon MA,Vreken P,Leonard JV,Morris AA

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report studies of a Greek boy of gypsy origin that show that he has severe deficiency of glycine N -methyltransferase (GNMT) activity due to apparent homozygosity for a novel mutation in the gene encoding this enzyme that changes asparagine-140 to serine. At age 2 years he was found to have mildly elevated serum li...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Augoustides-Savvopoulou P,Luka Z,Karyda S,Stabler SP,Allen RH,Patsiaoura K,Wagner C,Mudd SH

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fabry disease is an X-linked glycosphingolipid storage disorder caused by a deficiency of alpha-galactosidase A. Affected patients experience debilitating neuropathic pain and have premature mortality due to renal failure, cardiovascular disease or cerebrovascular complications. The disease may be X-linked dominant, s...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Baehner F,Kampmann C,Whybra C,Miebach E,Wiethoff CM,Beck M

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report elevated urinary excretion of 3-methylglutaconic (3MGC) and 3-methylglutaric acids (3MGR) in a patient with glycogen storage disease Ib. Combined excretion was 10-fold elevated in comparison to control during inadequate glucose maintenance, and still elevated following dietary improvement. 3MGC acid excretio...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Law LK,Tang NL,Hui J,Lam CW,Fok TF

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) is fundamental in all aspects of cellular life in aerobic cells and organisms. It is therefore not surprising that a variety of diseases have been attributed to dysfunction of the OXPHOS enzymes. Assessment of OXPHOS in human samples has proved to be a difficult task ov...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Chretien D,Rustin P

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A female patient with isovaleric acidaemia had a successful outcome from pregnancy. ...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Spinty S,Rogozinski H,Lealman GT,Wraith JE

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aldolase B is critical for sugar metabolism, and a catalytic deficiency due to mutations in its gene may result in hereditary fructose intolerance (HFI) syndrome, with hypoglycaemia and severe abdominal symptoms. This report describes two cases of HFI, which were identified by intravenous fructose tolerance test and a...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Kullberg-Lindh C,Hannoun C,Lindh M

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:2-Methyl-3-hydroxybutyryl-CoA dehydrogenase (EC 1.1.1.178) deficiency is a recently described defect of isoleucine catabolism. The disorder is characterized by normal early development followed by a progressive loss of mental and motor skills. Deterioration may be rapid or may follow a slower decline with a possible s...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Olpin SE,Pollitt RJ,McMenamin J,Manning NJ,Besley G,Ruiter JP,Wanders RJ

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A biochemical variant of argininosuccinate lyase deficiency, found in five individuals, is introduced. In comparison to classical patients, the variant cases of argininosuccinate lyase deficiency were characterized by residual enzyme activity as measured by the incorporation of [14C]citrulline into proteins. The five ...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Kleijer WJ,Garritsen VH,Linnebank M,Mooyer P,Huijmans JG,Mustonen A,Simola KO,Arslan-Kirchner M,Battini R,Briones P,Cardo E,Mandel H,Tschiedel E,Wanders RJ,Koch HG

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Early diagnosis and improved treatment are leading to the potential for increased reproductive capability in homocystinuria due to cystathionine beta-synthase (CbetaS) deficiency, but information about reproductive outcome and risk of thromboembolism in pregnancy is limited. To provide further information, clinical an...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Levy HL,Vargas JE,Waisbren SE,Kurczynski TW,Roeder ER,Schwartz RS,Rosengren S,Prasad C,Greenberg CR,Gilfix BM,MacGregor D,Shih VE,Bao L,Kraus JP

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We are constantly exposed to sources of agents that directly damage the genetic material. This exposure comes from environmental sources but also from within our own organisms. DNA damage occurs at a high frequency due to metabolic processes and environmental factors such as various exposures and the intake of food an...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Bohr VA

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lipid composition or the liver, spleen, brain, cerebellum and cerebrospinal fluid of a Gaucher disease type II patient who died at the age of 5 months was examined. The glycolipid analysis demonstrated a marked increase of total amounts not only in the peripheral tissues but also in the brain cerebellum and cerebr...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Gornati R,Berra B,Montorfano G,Martini C,Ciana G,Ferrari P,Romano M,Bembi B

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycogen storage disease type I (GSD I) is characterized by impaired production of glucose from glycogenolysis and gluconeogenesis resulting in severe fasting hypoglycaemia. The aim of the present study was to examine the efficacy of a continuous subcutaneous glucose monitoring system (CGMS MiniMed), to determine the ...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Hershkovitz E,Rachmel A,Ben-Zaken H,Phillip M

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A battery of self-report psychosocial measures was mailed to 116 patients who had been referred for clinical management (clinic attenders) or laboratory diagnosis (non-clinic attenders) to the London Supraregional Assay Service Centre for Porphyria over the past decade and who tested positive for porphyria. Usable rep...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Millward LM,Kelly P,Deacon A,Senior V,Peters TJ

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mixed hyperlipidaemia is a common finding in glycogen storage disease type Ia (GSD Ia). Although cross-sectional studies have demonstrated increases in intermediate-density lipoproteins (IDLs) and reductions in lipoprotein lipase activity, no studies have investigated the dynamics of apolipoprotein B-100 (apo B) metab...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Wierzbicki AS,Watt GF,Lynas J,Winder AF,Wray R

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of EB virus-transformed lymphoblasts with undetectable galactose-1-phosphate uridyltransferase (GALT) from 15 galactosaemic patients to oxidize [1-(14)C]galactose to 14CO2 was compared to that of cells from 7 normal subjects. The oxidation of galactose but not of glucose was markedly diminished by cells fr...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Yager C,Gibson J,States B,Elsas LJ,Segal S

更新日期：2001-08-01 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：:Molecular chaperones are present in the various compartments of the cell and assist the folding of newly synthesized proteins. Compared to wild-type proteins, missense mutant proteins are generally synthesized in a normal fashion, but may be impaired in their folding. A broad array of diseases that are due to misfoldi...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Gregersen N,Bross P,Andrese BS,Pedersen CB,Corydon TJ,Bolund L

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This workshop was organized as a direct response to concerns and queries raised by laboratory personnel, both in Europe and in the United States, about the imminent withdrawal of Beckman Coulter from the amino acid analysis market. The topics covered included external quality control schemes, standard operating proced...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Mayne PD,Roche G,Deverell D

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carnitine palmitoyltransferase type I (CPT I) is unique among long-chain fatty acid oxidation enzymes in that there are two tissue-specific isoforms, 'hepatic' and 'muscle', which are encoded by two separate genes. The 'hepatic' isoform is expressed in liver, kidney and fibroblasts and at low levels in the heart, whil...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Olpin SE,Allen J,Bonham JR,Clark S,Clayton PT,Calvin J,Downing M,Ives K,Jones S,Manning NJ,Pollitt RJ,Standing SJ,Tanner MS

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the relationship between genotype and clinical phenotype will clearly aid in the prognosis, treatment and counselling of patients with lysosomal storage diseases (LSDs). This, however, will require the establishment of widely accepted indices with which to score the severity of LSDs, as these diseases ar...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Maire I

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:N-Acetylaspartate (NAA) is an important osmolyte in the vertebrate brain that participates in an intercompartmental metabolic cycle. It is synthesized primarily in neurons from L-aspartate (Asp) and acetyl-CoA and, after its regulated release, it is hydrolysed by aspartoacylase in an oligodendrocyte compartment to pro...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Baslow MH,Suckow RF,Hungund BL

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty patients with early and continuously treated phenylketonuria (PKU) between 8 and 20 years of age were compared with 30 controls, matched individually for age, sex, and educational level of both parents, on behaviour rating scales for parents and teachers as well as a school achievement scale. PKU patients, as a...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Stemerdink BA,Kalverboer AF,van der Meere JJ,van der Molen MW,Huisman J,de Jong LW,Slijper FM,Verkerk PH,van Spronsen FJ

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Early signs of renal dysfunction in glycogen storage disease type Ia (GSD Ia) are glomerular hyperfiltration and proteinuria. In a non-randomized study, the effect of captopril on the improvement of proteinuria in GSD Ia patients with microalbuminuria was investigated. A positive effect has been shown for the insulin-...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Ozen H,Ciliv G,Koçak N,Saltik IN,Yüce A,Gürakan F

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are two mechanisms for glucose transport across cell membranes. In the intestine and renal proximal tubule, glucose is transported against a concentration gradient by a secondary active transport mechanism in which glucose is cotransported with sodium ions. In all other cells, glucose transport is mediated by on...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Brown GK

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report two novel mutations in two Japanese patients with glycogen storage disease type IIIa (GSD IIIa). In addition, we review the literature on mutations in GSD III to understand better the molecular basis of GSD III. In our first case, the homozygous A-to-C mutation at the acceptor site of intron 5 (IVS5-2A > C) ...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Fukuda T,Sugie H,Ito M

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This retrospective study in 20 untreated type I Gaucher disease patients shows that in Dutch patients clinical manifestations of Gaucher disease type I are progressive in the majority of patients, children as well as adults. This is in contrast with studies among Jewish patients. Our results emphasize the need for a r...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Maaswinkel-Mooij P,Hollak C,van Eysden-Plaisier M,Prins M,Aerts H,Pöll R

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A family of Maltese dogs with malonic aciduria is reported. The propositus presented at 3 years of age with episodes of seizures and stupor with hypoglycaemia, acidosis, and ketonuria. Urinary organic acid assays showed elevated malonic acid without elevation of methylmalonic acid. Cultured fibroblasts had normal malo...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： O'Brien DP,Barshop BA,Faunt KK,Johnson GC,Gibson KM,Shelton GD

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two sisters were investigated at the ages of 20 and 13 years owing to persistently increased serum creatine kinase and recurrent episodes of rhabdomyolysis after emotional stress in the older and myalgias in the younger. The finding of increased levels of cis-5-tetradecenoic acid (C14:1) in plasma, severe hypocarnitin...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Merinero B,Pascual Pascual SI,Pérez-Cerdá C,Gangoiti J,Castro M,Garcia MJ,Pascual Castroviejo I,Vianey-Saban C,Andresen B,Gregersen N,Ugarte M

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Even early-treated phenylketonuric patients suffer from phenylalanine-associated (mild) neuropsychological impairment. To date it is still unclear whether patients' deficits show a progression on ageing. This unsolved question seems to be an important aspect in the still ongoing debate about how long and how strictly ...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Weglage J,Pietsch M,Denecke J,Sprinz A,Feldmann R,Grenzebach M,Ullrich K

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years tremendous progress has been made with respect to the enzymology of the mitochondrial fatty acid beta-oxidation machinery and defects therein. Firstly, a number of new mitochondrial beta-oxidation enzymes have been identified, including very-long-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase (VLCAD) and mitochondrial t...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Wanders RJ,Vreken P,den Boer ME,Wijburg FA,van Gennip AH,IJlst L

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hyperhomocysteinaemia is an independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease. The C677T mutation of the methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) is a common genetic cause of increased homocysteine (HCY) levels. Post-methionine-load HCY concentrations allow identification of certain cases of hyperhomocysteinaemia ...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Candito M,Bedoucha P,Gibelin P,Jambou D,de Franchis R,Sadoul JL,Chatel M,Van Obberghen E

更新日期：1999-06-01 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