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Defective glucose transport across brain tissue barriers: a newly recognized neurological syndrome.
Neurochemical research - 1 Apr 1999
Klepper J, Wang D, Fischbarg J, Vera J C, Jarjour I T, O'Driscoll K R, De Vivo D C
Abstract excerpt
Impaired glucose transport across brain tissue barriers causes infantile seizures, developmental delay and acquired microcephaly. Since the first report in 1991 (De Vivo et al, NEJM, 1991) 17 patients have been identified with the glucose transporter protein syndrome (GTPS). The diagnostic feature of the syndrome is an unexplained hypoglycorrhachia in the clinical setting of an infantile epileptic encephalopathy....
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