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Urocanic acid contents in histidinaemic infant and developing rat epidermis
Author(s) -
Ito F.,
Ota H.,
Aoki K.,
Eto Y.
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
journal of inherited metabolic disease
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.462
H-Index - 102
eISSN - 1573-2665
pISSN - 0141-8955
DOI - 10.1007/bf02263588
Subject(s) - urocanic acid , epidermis (zoology) , human genetics , biology , medicine , chemistry , genetics , amino acid , anatomy , gene , histidine
The ratio of urocanic acid to histidine in stratum corneum can be used to differentiate patients with histidinaemia from normal subjects. The histidinaemia heterozygotes have intermediate ratios.