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Acute porphyrias in the Argentinean population: a review.
Cellular and molecular biology (Noisy-le-Grand, France) - 1 Jun 2003
Parera V E, De Siervi A, Varela L, Rossetti M V, Batlle A M del C
Abstract excerpt
The porphyrias are a group of inherited metabolic disorders of heme biosynthesis which result from a partial deficiency in one of its seven specific enzymes, after its first and rate limiting enzyme, delta-aminolevulinic acid synthetase. They can be classified on the basis of their clinical manifestations into cutaneous, acute and mixed disorders. Acute intermittent porphyria (AIP) is the most common type of...
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