1. Enzymaktivitätswerte des Galaktosestoffwechsels bei der sogenannten Cataracta congenita
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H Prestele, F C Sitzmann, H Kaloud, and Schenker H
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chemistry.chemical_classification ,medicine.medical_specialty ,School age child ,business.industry ,Galactose Metabolism ,General Medicine ,Uridyl transferase ,Galactokinase ,Endocrinology ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Enzyme ,chemistry ,Lens (anatomy) ,Internal medicine ,medicine ,sense organs ,business - Abstract
Activity of galactokinase (69 subjects) and galactose-1-phosphate uridyl transferase (92 subjects) were measured in haemolysed blood from children (predominantly of school age) with congenital cataract. chi2 tests, gene-frequency determination and metabolic-kinetic studies indicated that the changes in the lens in congenital cataract are partly due to a manifest or latent disorder of galactose metabolism, in particular a glactose-1-phosphate uridyl transferase defect.
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- 1975
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