Screening for medium chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency using electrospray ionisation tandem mass spectrometry

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 109-115

  Clayton, Peter T ^a   Doig, Mira ^a   Ghafari, Soudabeh ^a   Meaney, Cathy ^a   Taylor, Catherine ^a   Leonard, James V ^a   Morris, Michael ^b   Johnson, Andrew W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MICROMASS UK LTD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acylcarnitines; Blood spots; Fatty acid oxidation; Hypoglycaemia; Reye syndrome

Indexed keywords

ACYL COENZYME A DEHYDROGENASE; ACYLCARNITINE; CARNITINE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DNA DETERMINATION; ENZYME DEFICIENCY; FATTY ACID OXIDATION; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INBORN ERROR OF METABOLISM; INFANT; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NEWBORN SCREENING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REYE SYNDROME; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0031903920     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.79.2.109     Document Type: Article

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