Article
Glutaric aciduria type I and kynurenine pathway metabolites: a modified hypothesis.
Journal of inherited metabolic disease - 1 Jan 2004
Varadkar S, Surtees R
Abstract excerpt
Glutaric aciduria type I is an inborn error of organic acid metabolism that demonstrates a particular temporal vulnerability (acute encephalopathic episodes in infancy) and a spatial vulnerability (acute striatal necrosis, focused on the putamen). Excitotoxic mechanisms involving 3-hydroxyglutaric acid as the major neurotoxin have been suggested. This paper proposes a role for metabolites of the kynurenine...
Topics
- Amino Acid Metabolism, Inborn Errors
- Animals
- Glutarates
- Humans
- Kynurenine
- Phenotype
