Newborn screening for galactosemia: Ultramicro assay for galactose-1-phosphate-uridyltransferase activity

Clinica Chimica Acta

Volumn 274, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 71-87

  Rhode, Heidrun ^a   Elei, E ^b   Taube, Ingrid ^b   Podskarbi, T ^c   Horn, A ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b Newborn Screening Center   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fluorimetry; Galactosemia; GALT; Newborn screening

Indexed keywords

GALACTOSE 1 PHOSPHATE URIDYLYLTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ASSAY; FLUOROMETRY; GALACTOSEMIA; HUMAN; NEWBORN; NEWBORN SCREENING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

FLUOROMETRY; GALACTOSEMIAS; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; NEONATAL SCREENING; REFERENCE STANDARDS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UTP-HEXOSE-1-PHOSPHATE URIDYLYLTRANSFERASE;

EID: 17644445001     PISSN: 00098981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-8981(98)00052-7     Document Type: Article

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