Excretion of polyamines by children with Beckwith's syndrome.
- 1 January 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by BMJ in Archives of Disease in Childhood
- Vol. 55 (1) , 40-42
- https://doi.org/10.1136/adc.55.1.40
Abstract
The urinary excretion of the polyamines, putrescine, spermidine and spermine, was measured in 7 children with Beckwith''s syndrome. Putrescine excretion was raised and spermidine excretion reduced. The raised putrescine and the low spermidine ratios were highly significant. These results are consistent with a disturbance in a metabolic pathway under growth hormone-like regulation.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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