Article
Decreased hyperammonaemia and orotic aciduria due to inactivation of ornithine aminotransferase in mice with a hereditary abnormal ornithine carbamoyltransferase.
Journal of inherited metabolic disease - 1 Jan 1994
Seiler N, Grauffel C, Daune-Anglard G, Sarhan S, Knödgen B
Abstract excerpt
Mice with the X-chromosomal sparse-fur (spf) mutation are an animal model of some hereditary deficiencies of ornithine carbamoyltransferase (OCT) in man. Orotic aciduria and hyperammonaemia are the most conspicuous metabolic changes in these diseases. Selective inactivation of ornithine aminotransferase (OAT) by 5-fluoromethylornithine raises endogenous ornithine concentrations so that citrulline formation is...
Topics
- Amino Acids
- Ammonia
- Animals
- Behavior, Animal
- Female
- Male
- Metabolism, Inborn Errors
- Mice
- Mice, Mutant Strains
- Mutation
- Ornithine
