Clinical implications of genetic and acquired defects in catecholamine synthesis and metabolism.

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Clinical implications of genetic and acquired defects in catecholamine synthesis and metabolism.

Clinical and investigative medicine. Medecine clinique et experimentale - 1 Aug 1994

Kuchel O

Abstract excerpt

All major enzymes involved in catecholamine synthesis and metabolism have been cloned. In addition to some genetic defects of these enzymes responsible for well-defined clinical syndromes, several enzymatic abnormalities may be due to environmental (e.g. pharmacological and nutritional) or biolog...

Topics

Animals
Arylsulfotransferase
Catecholamines
Humans
Metabolism, Inborn Errors
Mutation

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