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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
1987-11-6
pubmed:abstractText
We describe a male infant with psychomotor retardation and leukodystrophy who excretes large quantities of N-acetylaspartate in his urine. A high CSF/plasma concentration ratio of N-acetylaspartate indicates that this substance originates in the brain. Fibroblasts from the patient are deficient in aspartoacylase activity. It is proposed that the dysmyelination in the patient may be due to failure of N-acetylaspartate to serve as a carrier of acetyl groups from mitochondria to the cytosol for lipogenesis.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0141-8955
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
10
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
135-41
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1987
pubmed:articleTitle
N-acetylaspartic aciduria due to aspartoacylase deficiency--a new aetiology of childhood leukodystrophy.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Clinical Chemistry, Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Case Reports