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    Phenylketonuria (PKU) is an inborn error of metabolism that results in decreased metabolism of the amino acid phenylalanine. Untreated PKU can lead to...
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    is biosynthesized via the shikimate pathway. The genetic disorder phenylketonuria (PKU) is the inability to metabolize phenylalanine because of a lack...
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  • be screened for phenylketonuria and hypothyroidism, among other congenital disorders. Hypothesis: "The newborns have phenylketonuria and hypothyroidism"...
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    malaria. Such disorders include cystic fibrosis, sickle cell disease, phenylketonuria and thalassaemia. Hereditary defects in enzymes are generally inherited...
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  • n-3 long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acid values in patients with phenylketonuria: a systematic review and meta-analysis". Nutrition Research. 33 (7):...
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  • The European Society for Phenylketonuria and Allied Disorders Treated as Phenylketonuria (E.S.PKU) is a Europe-based non-profit organization. It was founded...
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    development. Medium-chain acyl-coenzyme A dehydrogenase deficiency (MCADD) Phenylketonuria, a disorder where an error in amino acid metabolism can impair brain...
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    synthase (PTPS) deficiency. Also, BH4*2HCL is FDA approved for use in phenylketonuria (PKU), along with dietary measures. However, most people with PKU have...
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  • diet is used as a therapy for inherited metabolic disorders, such as phenylketonuria and homocystinuria, and can also be used to treat kidney or liver disease...
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  • the other is a rare or even novel one.[citation needed] Phenylketonuria. Because phenylketonuria was the first genetic disorder for which mass post-natal...
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    administration, induces hyperphenylalaninemia analogous to that in phenylketonuria in animals. The drug is known to produce metaraminol (3,β-dihydroxyamphetamine)...
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  • difference is not found in low fat consuming group (<35% of energy intake). Phenylketonuria, otherwise known as PKU, is an uncommon autosomal recessive metabolic...
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    mutations in its encoding gene, PAH, can lead to the metabolic disorder phenylketonuria. The reaction is thought to proceed through the following steps: formation...
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    decreased glutamate release is observed under conditions of classical phenylketonuria leading to developmental disruption of glutamate receptor expression...
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  • education level required) among the top five Google search results for "phenylketonuria", excluding Wikipedia. Healthline Media was founded in 1999 by endocrine...
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    Europe. It has been suggested that carriers of alleles associated with phenylketonuria may have been protected from spontaneous abortion caused by ochratoxin...
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  • diseases, including GLUT1 deficiency syndrome, Lesch–Nyhan syndrome, phenylketonuria, and Huntington disease and can be a feature of kernicterus (rapidly...
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    although in some people, malnutrition may occur. Individuals with phenylketonuria (PKU) must keep their intake of phenylalanine – an essential amino...
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    role in effects of the human genetic disease phenylketonuria. The mutation that causes phenylketonuria disrupts the ability of the body to break down...
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    hexosaminidase. One example of enzyme deficiency is the most common type of phenylketonuria. Many different single amino acid mutations in the enzyme phenylalanine...
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    (depending on factors such as age and gender). An example of pleiotropy is phenylketonuria, an inherited disorder that affects the level of phenylalanine, an...
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    lysosomal storage disorders, metabolic acidosis, peroxisomal disorders, phenylketonuria, and urea cycle disorders. Cytogenetics is the study of chromosomes...
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  • developing the bacterial inhibition assay used to screen infants for phenylketonuria at birth, before the development of irreversible neurological damage...
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    the early detection (via neonatal screening) and the treatment of phenylketonuria (PKU). Woolf was born in London, England, on 24 April 1919. He was...
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    elevated concentrations of the amino acid phenylalanine in the blood. Phenylketonuria (PKU) can result in severe hyperphenylalaninemia. Phenylalanine concentrations...
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  • first described the disease commonly known as Følling's disease or phenylketonuria (PKU). He was born on 23 August 1888 at Kvam, Steinkjer in Trøndelag...
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  • Two examples are diabetes mellitus (a multifactorial disorder) and phenylketonuria (an inborn error of metabolism). Many such inherited diseases may directly...
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    is a rare autosomal recessive disorder of glycine metabolism. After phenylketonuria, glycine encephalopathy is the second most common disorder of amino...
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    Other Radiation exposure to mother Maternal malnutrition Maternal phenylketonuria Poorly controlled gestational diabetes Hyperthermia Maternal hypothyroidism...
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    hippocampal neurons by L-phenylalanine at concentrations observed during phenylketonuria". Molecular Psychiatry. 7 (4): 359–67. doi:10.1038/sj.mp.4000976. PMID 11986979...
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