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：:The mitochondrial myopathies or encephalomyopathies with known biochemical defects can be divided into 5 groups: (1) defects of mitochondrial transport, such as CPT deficiency or carnitine deficiencies; (2) defects of substrate utilization, such as PDHC deficiency or defects of beta-oxidation; (3) defects of the Krebs...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： DiMauro S,Bonilla E,Zeviani M,Servidei S,DeVivo DC,Schon EA

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gonadal function was followed in 26 females and 12 males with galactosaemia due to deficiency of the enzyme galactose-1-phosphate (Gal-1-P) uridyl transferase over a 4 year period. Gonadal function was normal in males, but all females except two had evidence of acquired ovarian failure. Twelve females with ovarian fai...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Kaufman FR,Donnell GN,Roe TF,Kogut MD

更新日期：1986-01-01 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：:The neonatal presentation of congenital adrenal hyperplasia is either virilization of females or salt loss in both sexes. Early diagnosis is based on the rapid measurement of plasma 17 alpha-hydroxyprogesterone. Milder forms of congenital adrenal hyperplasia can present later in life with abnormalities of somatic or s...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Hughes IA

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Direct alteration of a gene in the human genome requires an understanding of the role of the gene in metabolism. A gene may need to be introduced into a specific tissue or alternatively it may be possible to use accessible tissue such as bone marrow. The level of gene expression required also needs to be known as does...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Smithies O

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report studies on two patients (1 and 2) with Hurler disease. They both had all of the non-neurological features of Hurler disease to a similar and extreme degree and similar signs of brain damage on computed tomography. However, intellectual function was unusually well-preserved in patient 1, but seriously and typ...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Watts RW,Spellacy E,Adams JH

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In most patients with deficiency of tetrahydrobiopterin (BH4) continuous administration of BH4 or of a synthetic analogue such as 6-methyltetrahydropterin (6-MPH4) lowers plasma phenylalanine concentrations to the therapeutic range. The effective dose of BH4 varies from 1 to 2 mg kg-1 daily in patients with defective ...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Smith I,Hyland K,Kendall B

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The intestinal microvillar enzyme complex sucrase-isomaltase has been studied in cystic fibrosis and control ileum. A number of biochemical parameters of the enzyme in ileum homogenates have been determined. Both solubilized as well as membrane-bound sucrase-isomaltase were analyzed with respect to their reaction with...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Sips HJ,Claass AH,van Dongen JM,Willemsen R,Hoogeveen AT,Galjaard H,Sinaasappel M,Hauri HP,Sterchi EE

更新日期：1985-01-01 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：:Concentrations of free dolichol, total non-phosphorylated dolichol, and total phosphorylated dolichol were measured in autopsy specimens of brain and liver from ceroid-lipofuscinosis (CL) and control cases. Levels of non-phosphorylated dolichol, mainly as free dolichol, were increased approximately two-fold in late-in...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Hall NA,Patrick AD

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The very long chain fatty acids in cultured fibroblasts from six patients with the cerebro-hepato-renal syndrome of Zellweger, from six of their parents, from three controls, and also in three amniotic fluid control cell lines were analysed by gas chromatography. Increased concentrations of hexacosanoic acid (C26:O) w...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Govaerts L,Bakkeren J,Monnens L,Maas J,Trijbels F,Kleijer W

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electron micrographs of fibroblasts of an HHH-syndrome patient showed abnormal structures, similar, but not identical, to those observed in the liver of such patients. It is suggested that incorporation of a mutated protein into the inner mitochondrial membrane gives rise to a rearrangement of that membrane, resulting...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Metoki K,Hommes FA,Dyken P,Kelloes C,Trefz J

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hexosaminidase A activities were determined in tears and peripheral leukocytes of carriers and noncarriers for Tay-Sachs Disease (TSD) as a percentage of total hexosaminidase activity. Correlation between enzyme activities in tears and leukocytes was highly significant (r = 0.75, p less than 0.01). Compared to leukocy...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Buchalter MS,Wannmacher CM,Wajner M

更新日期：1984-01-01 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：:Organic acidaemias can present with a wide variety of signs and symptoms. A survey of the clinical presentation of the organic acidurias shows that single symptoms are not characteristic or diagnostic. Clinical awareness coupled with appropriate laboratory investigation is required for the correct diagnosis to be reac...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Brandt NJ

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The differential diagnosis of patients with apparent congenital lactic acidoses poses one of the most intractable problems in the study of patients with disorders of organic acid metabolism. An outline of the factors leading to a lactic acidosis, particularly in infants and young children, together with a brief review...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Chalmers RA

更新日期：1984-01-01 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：:A severely mentally retarded infant with congenital lactic acidosis due to pyruvate carboxylase deficiency is reported. The patient suffered from vomiting and convulsions soon after birth and developed severe mental and motor retardation at 3 months of age. The persistent elevation of pyruvate and lactate in both bloo...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Tsuchiyama A,Oyanagi K,Hirano S,Tachi N,Sogawa H,Wagatsuma K,Nakao T,Tsugawa S,Kawamura Y

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new French-Canadian family from the province of Quebec is reported, in which a male child was diagnosed as hyperargininaemic after showing positive tests for cystinuria on neonatal screening. The child has no residual activity of erythrocyte arginase, and a plasma arginine level of 633 mumol/l. Both parents have 32-...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Qureshi IA,Letarte J,Ouellet R,Larochelle J,Lemieux B

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The glycine uptake in cultured fibroblasts was studied in three children with non-ketotic hyperglycinaemia, one child with D-glyceric acidaemia and hyperglycinaemia and in six normal children, using an improved assay system giving individual protein correction. It was shown that all hyperglycinaemic children had norma...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Kølvraa S,Rosleff F,Brandt NJ

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A brief outline of the known biochemical roles of manganese and chromium is given before the problems of determining human trace metal status are discussed. The factors predisposing to trace metal deficiency are reviewed but particular emphasis is placed upon those which alter the bioavailability of essential trace me...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Aggett PJ,Davies NT

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current understanding of the means by which the trace metals copper, iron, and zinc are transported and stored in the human body is reviewed. Although metal-related inherited metabolic diseases manifest themselves as deficiencies in metalloenzymes, these deficiencies in fact arise from disturbances in the absorption/r...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Laurie SH

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eighty-nine protein-loading tests were performed in 80 patients with an increased blood phenylalanine concentration. The amount of protein corresponding to 0.18 g phenylalanine/kg body weight per day was calculated and given for 3 days, during which time eight phenylalanine and eight tyrosine blood concentrations were...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Lutz P,Schmidt H,Frey G,Bickel H

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The extent of hydroxylation of proline in collagen synthesized and secreted into the culture medium by skin fibroblasts derived from a patient with prolidase deficiency has been examined and found to be normal. It would seem likely that to a considerable extent the urinary proline-containing dipeptides apparent in thi...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Royce PM,Danks DM

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspartylglycosaminuria (AGU, McKusick 20840) is a metabolic disorder affecting the catabolism of glycoproteins. It was first described in 1967, by Jenner and Pollitt, in two mentally retarded English siblings. Subsequently several cases were reported from Finland (Palo and Mattsson, 1970; Autio, 1972; Autio et al., 19...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Maury CP

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Detailed biochemical studies have been carried out in a female heterozygote for ornithine carbamoyl-transferase (OCT) deficiency. Increased levels of the pyrimidines, orotic acid, uridine and uracil, were observed in plasma as well as urine by utilizing an adaptation of high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). U...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Webster DR,Simmonds HA,Barry DM,Becroft DM

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:S-Adenosylhomocysteine (S-AdoHcy) hydrolase activity in a lymphoblastoid cell line from a patient with adenosine deaminase deficiency disease (ADA(-)LCL) was found to be approximately 60% of that in ADA (+)lymphoblastoid cell lines. S-AdoHcy hydrolase of ADA(-)LCL was more sensitive to inhibition by 2'-deoxyadenosine ...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Tsuchiya S,Nakae S,Konno T,Tada K

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 5-year-old boy, excreting large amounts of 2-hydroxyglutaric acid in the urine (3.3-7.6 mmol/l), is described. The patient presented with psychomotor retardation and dystrophy. His skeletal age was delayed. The EEG was not well differentiated; it resembled that observed in 2-year-old children. There was a severe ana...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Duran M,Kamerling JP,Bakker HD,van Gennip AH,Wadman SK

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulinaemia and glucagonaemia were measured in two cases of hypercholesterolaemia type II, before and after portacaval shunt. The results show an increase of both hormones although these variations are not concomitant with the decrease in cholesterolaemia. The data still do not explain the mechanism of the decrease. ...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Farriaux JP,Luyckx AS,Ribet M

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unlike normal human cells, cultured fibroblasts from patients with argininosuccinic aciduria cannot synthesize arginine from citrulline because they have a deficiency of argininosuccinic acid lyase (ASL). We have found that V79, a Chinese hamster cell line, cannot grow on citrulline. Although these cells show a normal...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： González-Noriega A,Verduzco J,Prieto E,Velázquez A

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new variant of glycogen storage disease (GSD) Type 1, with clinical symptoms and laboratory findings consistent with those of glucose-6-phosphatase (G6Pase) deficiency, is described. Assay of G6Pase in liver from the patient immediately after biopsy by the method of Nordlie and Arion gave low activity (0.8 mumol/min...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Igarashi Y,Otomo H,Narisawa K,Tada K

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Krabbe's disease was diagnosed prenatally using cultured amniotic fluid cells and the diagnosis confirmed using fetal brain, liver and cultured fetal skin fibroblasts. The enzyme defect was demonstrated by assay of galactocerebrosidase and lactocerebrosidase I, and by hydrolysis of the chromogenic analogue, 2-hexadeca...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Besley GT

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies on fibroblasts from patients with lactic acidosis of different causes showed secondary metabolic changes in pathways of glucose metabolism. These secondary changes may be important clues to the diagnosis of the many different types of hereditary lactic acidosis. ...

journal_title：Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors： Borud O,Strømme JH

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00