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Pregnancy and Lactation Outcomes in a Turkish Patient With Lysinuric Protein Intolerance
(Springer-Verlag Berlin, 2014)
Maternal lysinuric protein intolerance (LPI) is associated with increased risk of anemia, toxemia, and retarded growth in fetus during pregnancy, and bleeding complications during delivery. There has been limited number ...
Recessive Ttn Truncating Mutations Define Novel Forms of Core Myopathy with Heart Disease
(Oxford Univ Press, 2014)
Core myopathies (CM), the main non-dystrophic myopathies in childhood, remain genetically unexplained in many cases. Heart disease is not considered part of the typical CM spectrum. No congenital heart defect has been ...
A Rare Cause of Elevated Chitotriosidase Activity: Glycogen Storage Disease Type IV
(Springer-Verlag Berlin, 2014)
Human chitinolytic enzyme named "chitotriosidase" takes part in the defense mechanism against pathogens and the homeostasis of innate immunity. Chitotriosidase was firstly reported to be markedly high in plasma of patients ...
Regulatory T Cells And Immune Regulation Of Allergic Diseases: Roles Of Il-10 And Tgf-Beta
(Nature Publishing Group, 2014)
The prevalence of allergic diseases has significantly increased in industrialized countries. Allergen-specific immunotherapy (AIT) remains as the only curative treatment. The knowledge about the mechanisms underlying healthy ...
Mutations In Emp2 Cause Childhood-Onset Nephrotic Syndrome
(Cell Press, 2014)
Nephrotic syndrome (NS) is a genetically heterogeneous group of diseases that are divided into steroid-sensitive NS (SSNS) and steroid-resistant NS (SRNS). SRNS inevitably leads to end-stage kidney disease, and no curative ...
