Objectives:To explore the prevalence of hepatic steatosis and neonatal intrahepatic cholestasis caused by citrin deficiency(NICCD) in Taiwan Residents infants with idiopathic intrahepatic cholestasis. Study design:The...
Objectives: To determine whether early identification of babies with cystic fibrosis (CF) improves outcome in the current environment of new improved treatments, considering the criticism that there may be only margin...
Overweight (9% ) and obesity (1% ) in patients with cystic fibrosis homozygous for the Δ F508 mutation (CFΔ F508) were non-trivial. Children with CFΔ F508, in contrast to the general population, showed a positive a...
Aims: To define the pharmacokinetics of isoniazid (INH) in children with tuber culosis in relation to the N-acetyltransferase 2 (NAT2) genotype. Methods: The first order elimination rate constant (k) and area under th...
Aim: To investigate the carnitine status and the effect of carnitine supplemen tation on serum lipid profiles in children with hyperlipoproteinaemia, a clinica l open trial was conducted at Hacettepe University Ihsan ...
Carnitine (β -hydroxy-γ -trimethylaminobutyric acid) facilitates the transfer of activated long-chain fatty acids from the cytoplasm to the mitochondria, the site of their β -oxidation. Carnitine deficiency results...
Succinyl-CoA:3-ketoacid CoA transferase (SCOT; locus symbol OXCT; E.C.2.8.3.5) is themain determinant of the ketolytic capacity of tissues.Hereditary SCOT deficiency causes episodic ketoacidosis.Permanent ketosis has ...
We describe a novel homozygous missense glucokinase mutation (R397L) resulting in insulin-treated neonatal diabetes in an infant from a consanguineous Asian family. Both parents were heterozygous for R397L and had mil...