The industrial solvent trichloroethylene (TCE) has been reported to increase the excretion of formic acid in the urine of male Fischer 344 (F-344) rats following large oral doses. We have examined the dose-response relationship for formic aciduria in male and female Fischer 344 rats, the effect of some known metabolites of TCE and examined the response in male Wistar rats to help understand its...

Fumaric aciduria is a rare autosomal recessive metabolic disease which is characterized with excessive fumaric acid exretion in urine. In the prenatal period, polyhydramniosis, intrauterine growth retardation, enlarged brain ventricles and brain anomalies are observed. Growth and development failure, hypotonia, seizures and brain atrophy are the common characteristics of patients with fumarase ...

objectiveglutaric aciduria type 1 (gal 1) is a cerebral organic academia, which manifests as encephalopathy with long-term neurological handicap. in this study, clinical presentation, neuroimaging, molecular finding of cgdh mutation of our patients were reviewed.materials and methodsthis was a descriptive and cross-sectional study. patients in whom gla1 were suspected by clinical manifestation,...

When estimating long-term glycemic control, A1C is considered the gold standard (1–3), but patients with seemingly equivalent A1C differ in their risk for microvascular complications (4,5). Recently, the “glycation gap,” defined as the difference between the measured A1C and that which would be predicted from another measure of glycemic control, fructosamine, has been proposed as a means of ide...

How do we formulate low‐risk drinking guidelines if zero consumption is lowest risk?

Mevalonic aciduria is the first proposed inherited disorder of the cholesterol/isoprene biosynthetic pathway in humans, and it is presumed to be caused by a mutation in the gene coding for mevalonate kinase. To elucidate the molecular basis of this inherited disorder, a 2.0-kilobase human mevalonate kinase cDNA clone was isolated and sequenced. The 1188-base pair open reading frame coded for a ...