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Three out of our five patients (cases 1-3) showed elevated ammonia serum levels. Very high ammonia levels have previously been described in patients with VE, even with normal liver function tests [21], and it has been hypothesised that the manifestations of VE are directly related to hyperammonaemia. VPA can increase the transport of glutamine across the mitochondrial membrane in the kidney, th...

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on the adult skull. The skull of the infant, and more so in the neonate by necessity, is immensely malleable, with the pliability of a milk carton. As a mainly cartilaginous structure at birth, the infant skull is ultraresponsive to direct molding pressures. The evolution of the neurocranium, through different growth centers, as well as the main sutural features of the skull and face are shown ...

Appendix 2: Food Hazards: sausages and hamburgers

The Victorian Department of Health Food Safety has responded to the findings released in the VCEC1 report on the burden to business of food regulation in this state. From 1 July 2010 the Food Act will introduce a new classification system. There will be four classes of food premises, and the aim of this system is to allow regulation to be better matched to the level of food safety risk which ea...