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：:We analysed the gene of the human alpha-subunit of liver phosphorylase kinase (PHKA2) in four Japanese families with X-linked liver phosphorylase kinase deficiency type 1 by RT-PCR followed by PCR-single-strand conformation polymorphism and direct DNA sequencing. In this study, two novel mutations (Y116D and 2675A-->G...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Hirono H,Shoji Y,Takahashi T,Sato W,Takeda E,Nishijo T,Kuroda Y,Nishigaki T,Inui K,Takada G

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among the many disorders of fatty acid beta-oxidation known today, the disorders of long-chain fatty acid oxidation are the most severe and life-threatening. One remarkable abnormality, not observed in, for instance, medium-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency, is the moderate to severe lactic acidaemia in long-cha...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Ventura FV,Ruiter JP,IJlst L,de Almeida IT,Wanders RJ

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:NTBC is a triketone with herbicidal activity that has been shown to have a novel mode of action by inhibiting the enzyme 4-hydroxyphenylpyruvate dioxygenase in plants. Early studies on the toxicity of this compound found that rats treated with NTBC developed corneal lesions. Investigations aimed at understanding the m...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Lock EA,Ellis MK,Gaskin P,Robinson M,Auton TR,Provan WM,Smith LL,Prisbylla MP,Mutter LC,Lee DL

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cloning of the gene defective in the X-linked neurodegenerative disorder Menkes disease led to a cascade of new findings. Besides giving a better understanding of the intracellular copper homeostasis, these findings had important consequences from a clinical point of view. Today the underlying genetic defect has been ...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Tümer Z,Horn N

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glutaric aciduria type I (GA1) is a preventable cause of acute brain damage in early childhood, leading to a severe dystonic-dyskinetic disorder that is similar to cerebral palsy and ranges from extreme hypotonia to choreoathetosis to rigidity with spasticity. Degeneration of the putamen and caudate typically occurs b...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Barić I,Zschocke J,Christensen E,Duran M,Goodman SI,Leonard JV,Müller E,Morton DH,Superti-Furga A,Hoffmann GF

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In addition to systemic manifestations with skeletal, pulmonary, renal, and haematological signs, lysinuric protein intolerance (LPI), a membrane transport defect of cationic amino acids, is often complicated by severe life-threatening immunological manifestations. A 10-year-old boy with LPI who exhibited a severe sys...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Dionisi-Vici C,De Felice L,el Hachem M,Bottero S,Rizzo C,Paoloni A,Goffredo B,Sabetta G,Caniglia M

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our series of studies on Hunter disease in Japanese patients showed allelic heterogeneity of IDS gene mutations, genotype/phenotype correlation and racial differences in distribution of mutations. Twenty-five different small mutations have been characterized. Small mutations in the Japanese population are widely distr...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Isogai K,Sukegawa K,Tomatsu S,Fukao T,Song XQ,Yamada Y,Fukuda S,Orii T,Kondo N

更新日期：1998-02-01 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：:This first detailed report of a female patient with functional methionine synthase deficiency due to the cblE defect describes treatment with several vitamins and cofactors and clinical progress for 17 years. Before treatment, major findings were microcephaly, psychomotor retardation, episodic reduced consciousness, m...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Fowler B,Schutgens RB,Rosenblatt DS,Smit GP,Lindemans J

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ten of 31 patients with steroid sulphatase (STS) deficiency were found to have an allergic disease (bronchial asthma, allergic rhinitis, or atopic dermatitis). STS deficiency may predispose patients to allergic disease. ...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Sakura N,Nishimura S,Matsumoto T,Ohsaki M,Ogata T

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twin brothers were born with clinical symptoms indicating that they were suffering from Zellweger syndrome. However, instead of a generalized peroxisomal dysfunction, only very long-chain fatty acids and the pristanic acid/phytanic acid ratio were elevated in plasma and decreased oxidation of very long-chain fatty aci...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Christensen E,Pedersen SA,Leth H,Jakobs C,Schutgens RB,Wanders RJ

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report molecular analysis of thiamin-responsive pyruvate dehydrogenase complex (PDHC) deficiency in a patient with an X-linked form of Leigh syndrome. PDHC activity in cultured lymphoblastoid cells of this patient and his asymptomatic mother were normal in the presence of a high thiamin pyrophosphate (TPP) concentr...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Naito E,Ito M,Yokota I,Saijo T,Matsuda J,Osaka H,Kimura S,Kuroda Y

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenosine deaminase (ADA) deficiency was the first known cause of primary immunodeficiency. Over the past 25 years the basis for immune deficiency has largely been established. Now it appears that ADA deficiency may also cause hepatic toxicity, raising new questions about its pathogenesis. The ADA gene has been sequen...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Hershfield MS,Arredondo-Vega FX,Santisteban I

更新日期：1997-06-01 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：:Utilizing PCR and PCR-SSCP analysis we investigated the prevalence of glucocerebrosidase gene mutations in 47 unrelated Japanese patients with Gaucher disease. Sixty alleles (63.8%) and 20 alleles (21.3%) were identified by analysis for common mutations and PCR-SSCP analysis, respectively. The L444P and F213I mutation...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Ida H,Rennert OM,Kawame H,Maekawa K,Eto Y

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Defects in a pathway as complex as the electron transport chain cause a variety of clinical abnormalities, which vary from fatal lactic acidosis in infancy to mild muscle disease in adults. The primary defect may reside in the nucleus or the mitochondrial genome. Until relatively recently, biochemical assays were the ...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Adams PL,Turnbull DM

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Congenital lactic acidoses form a heterogeneous group of disorders: this paper considers primarily defects of the pyruvate dehydrogenase complex and the respiratory chain. Attempts to treat these disorders are hampered by uncertainty concerning the pathophysiology and by the central role of the enzymes in cellular met...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Morris AA,Leonard JV

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Urea and creatinine were measured by Kodak Ektachem methods and methylmalonic acid by stable-isotope gas chromatography-mass spectrometry in 24 urine samples from patients with methylmalonic acidaemia. For each sample analyses were performed both directly on the liquid urine and on an aliquot which had been blotted on...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Parnet JM,Divry P,Vianey-Saban C,Mathieu M

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report 8 cases of severe cytochrome c oxidase deficiency with onset in the neonatal period. Clinical symptoms were heterogeneous: antenatal cerebral malformations, neurological distress with ketoacidosis, severe myopathy, or isolated respiratory control failure. Lactic acid was elevated in blood and/or CSF in 7 cas...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Lombes A,Romero NB,Touati G,Frachon P,Cheval MA,Giraud M,Simon D,Ogier de Baulny H

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with MPS IV have a clinical disorder quite different from other MPS conditions. The major treatment issue revolves around the prevention of cervical myelopathy, although the other aspects of this multisystem disease should not be forgotten. Management is inevitably multidisciplinary and the paediatrician shou...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Northover H,Cowie RA,Wraith JE

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Niemann-Pick disease type C (NPC) is a neurovisceral storage disorder with an unknown primary deficiency. Somatic cell hybridization experiments using human cultured fibroblasts have shown that two complementation groups (NPC-alpha and NPC-beta) are associated with the biochemical and clinical phenotypes comprising NP...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Steinberg SJ,Mondal D,Fensom AH

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspartylglycosaminuria (AGU) is a lysosomal storage disorder of glycoprotein degradation caused by deficiency of glycosylasparaginase (GA). A deletion mutation was found in a mildly affected AGU patient whose parents are first-cousins of Mauritian origin. One bp deletion at position 787 or 788 (delta T788) in exon 7 o...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Park H,Rossiter M,Fensom AH,Winchester B,Aronson NN Jr

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have identified a group of patients with cytochrome oxidase (COX) deficiency presenting in infancy associated with a deficiency of mtDNA in muscle or other affected tissue (Moraes et al 1991). We used a novel approach to compare the level of mitochondrial (mtDNA) compared to nuclear DNA in skeletal musc...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Poulton J,Sewry C,Potter CG,Bougeron T,Chretien D,Wijburg FA,Morten KJ,Brown G

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuropsychological assessment is essential in providing documentation of the untreated natural history of storage diseases associated with dementia and quantifying the effectiveness of treatment on central nervous system function. Baseline characterization and outcome of bone marrow transplantation (BMT) for three leu...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Shapiro EG,Lockman LA,Balthazor M,Krivit W

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD) is an autosomal recessive disorder resulting from the inability to metabolize sulphatide, an important component of myelin. Although there is significant clinical variability between patients, most have the late-infantile form. It is one of the most common lysosomal disorders involvi...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Pastor-Soler NM,Schertz EM,Rafi MA,de Gala G,Wenger DA

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new acylcarnitine was observed in the plasma and urine of a patient with isolated 3-methylcrotonyl-CoA carboxylase deficiency. Analysis by tandem mass spectrometry of the methyl ester and butyl ester and their fragment ion spectra identified it as a 3-hydroxy-C5-acylcarnitine. Fibroblasts from a second patient were ...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： van Hove JL,Rutledge SL,Nada MA,Kahler SG,Millington DS

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Morphometry of peroxisomes is performed on electron micrographs of ultrathin sections after staining for catalase activity with diaminobenzidine; specific peroxisomal labelling is preferred to guarantee recognition. Peroxisomal number, size, axial ratio and volume parameters are determined and compared to control valu...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Kerckaert I,De Craemer D,Van Limbergen G

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently a striking elevation of the activity of chitotriosidase, an endo beta-glucosaminidase distinct from lysozyme, was found in plasma from patients with Gaucher type I disease (McKusick 230800). Plasma chitotriosidase originates from activated macrophages and this elevation is secondary to the basic defect in Gau...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Guo Y,He W,Boer AM,Wevers RA,de Bruijn AM,Groener JE,Hollak CE,Aerts JM,Galjaard H,van Diggelen OP

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mutation N370S accounts for 63% of the mutated glucocerebrosidase alleles of Portuguese type 1 Gaucher patients. It has been shown previously that this mutation is linked to the Pv1.1- form of the PvuII polymorphism and suggested that the N370S mutation in glucocerebrosidase alleles has an Ashkenazi Jewish origin....

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Lacerda L,Amaral O,Pinto R,Aerts J,Sá Miranda MC

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human genome contains about 3 x 10(9) base pairs which, based on average estimates for the size of coding regions, might suggest an upper limit of about 3 million genes. Evidence from a variety of approaches indicates a much lower figure--in the range 40,000-100,000 genes. Renaturation kinetic analysis reveals the...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Craig IW

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Important therapeutic principles were established in developing effective enzyme replacement therapy for patients with Gaucher disease. The background and sequence of the investigations that led to effective delivery of exogenous glucocerebrosidase to the lipid-storing macrophages in patients with Gaucher disease are ...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Brady RO,Murray GJ,Barton NW

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:6-Methyluracil (6MU) has been identified in urine collected during acute illness in two children with beta-ketothiolase deficiency (approximately 1 mmol/L) and in two children with recurrent infection-related ketoacidaemia of unknown aetiology (levels of 6.3 and 7.1 mmol/mmol creatinine). Significant amounts of 6MU we...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Cromby CH,Manning NJ,Pollitt RJ,Powell S,Bennett MJ

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Erythrocyte thiamin metabolism and transport were investigated in 7 patients from Brazil, Israel and Italy suffering from thiamin-responsive megaloblastic anaemia (TRMA) associated with diabetes mellitus and sensorineural deafness. All patients discontinued thiamin therapy for 4-7 days before the investigation. TRMA p...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Rindi G,Patrini C,Laforenza U,Mandel H,Berant M,Viana MB,Poggi V,Zarra AN

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mucolipidosis IV (ML IV) (McKusick 252650) is an autosomal recessive metabolic disorder that displays signs of both lipid and mucopolysaccharide (glycosaminoglycan) storage. It has been reported that fibroblasts from ML IV patients exhibit abnormally high synthesis of hyaluronic acid in culture. In our search for a bi...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Goldin E,Imai Y,Kaneski CR,Pentchev PG,Brady RO,Hascall VC

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The leukodystrophies are degenerative diseases that involve primarily the white matter of the brain. The most common leukodystrophies result from known disturbances in the synthesis or catabolism of myelin such as a block in the catabolism of sulphatides and of galactocerebrosides, respectively, in metachromatic leuko...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Aicardi J

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:GM2-gangliosidosis B1 variant, considered a rare disorder with a wide geographical and ethnic distribution, appears to be exceptionally frequent in Portugal. In order to establish a carrier detection method for this disease we have determined the ratio of enzymatic activities against 4MUGS and 4MUG in urine from B1 va...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Ribeiro MG,Pinto R,Oliveira P,Sá Miranda MC

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the value of the fasting plasma phenylalanine/tyrosine ratio obtained in an ordinary clinical setting for assessing the probability of being a heterozygote for hyperphenylalaninaemia. This biochemical test was found to be of little value in those with a high (66%) prior risk of heterozygosity, because it c...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Saraiva JM,Seakins JW,Smith I

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Succinic semialdehyde dehydrogenase (SSAD) is an enzyme involved in the turnover of the neurotransmitter 4-aminobutyrate (GABA). Deficiency of SSAD results in developmental delay, ataxia, seizures and 4-hydroxybutyric aciduria. We have developed a simple fluorimetric assay for the enzyme and applied it to measurement ...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Thorburn DR,Thompson GN,Howells DW

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The immunochemical analysis of enzyme from mucopolysaccharidoses (MPS) patients is aimed at defining the level and nature of the enzymically deficient protein produced by specific gene mutations. Immunochemical techniques allow purification of enzyme, characterization of the composite molecular species, measurement of...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Brooks DA

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00