Introduction to the Maastricht workshop: Lessons from the past and new directions in galactosemia

Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disease

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 249-255

  Berry, Gerard T ^a   Elsas, Louis J ^b  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GALACTOSE; GALACTOSE 1 PHOSPHATE URIDYLYLTRANSFERASE;

BLEEDING TENDENCY; CATALYSIS; EDITORIAL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME DEFICIENCY; FEEDING DISORDER; GALACTOSEMIA; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GROWTH DISORDER; HEPATOMEGALY; HEREDITARY GALACTOSEMIA; HUMAN; HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA; HYPERTRANSAMINASEMIA; HYPOFIBRINOGENEMIA; JAUNDICE; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; NEWBORN SCREENING; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; VOMITING; WORKSHOP;

ANIMALS; CONGRESSES AS TOPIC; GALACTOSEMIAS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INFANT FORMULA; INFANT, NEWBORN; MICE; PHENOTYPE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE GALACTOSE; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE GLUCOSE; UTP-HEXOSE-1-PHOSPHATE URIDYLYLTRANSFERASE;

EID: 79955703331     PISSN: 01418955     EISSN: 15732665     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10545-010-9232-1     Document Type: Editorial

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