Plasma amino acids in 3/sec spike-wave epilepsy
- 1 June 1980
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Neurochemical Research
- Vol. 5 (6) , 659-671
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00964787
Abstract
Plasma levels of 14 amino acids were determined in 44 probands with 3/sec spike-wave epilepsy, 27 of their first-degree relatives, and 22 controls. Six ratios of metabolically related amino acids were also calculated. Statistically significant differences were found for 7/20 variables when the experimental and control probands were compared, and for 6/20 variables when the relatives were compared with controls. Tau, Asp, and Tau/Glu were decreased and Glu was increased in both the experimental probands and their first degree relatives. When discriminant analysis was used, age- and sex-matched epileptic probands could be distinguished from the age- and sex-matched control probands with 100% accuracy employing only 3 amino acids (Asp, Glu, Val) and one ratio (Thr/Ser).Keywords
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