Analysis of organic acids, amino acids, and carnitine in dogs with lipid storage myopathy
β Scribed by G. Diane Shelton; William L. Nyhan; Philip H. Kass; Bruce A. Barshop; Richard H. Haas
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 224 KB
- Volume
- 21
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0148-639X
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β¦ Synopsis
Abnormal accumulations of lipid droplets, localized predominantly in histochemical type 1 fibers, were observed in fresh frozen sections of muscle biopsies from 25 dogs with myalgia, weakness, and muscle atrophy. Compared to controls, lactic acidemia, hyperalaninemia, lactic and pyruvic aciduria, variably increased urinary excretion of carnitine esters, and muscle carnitine deficiency were present. These findings support a metabolic block in oxidative metabolism resulting in lactic acidemia in dogs with lipid storage myopathy.
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
Nine amino acids, aspartic acid, glycine, serine, tyrosine, alanine, glutamic acid, threonine, cystine, phenylalanine, and two peptides, and two peptides, glycine-glycine peptide, glutamic acid-cystine-glycine peptide, give rise to damped oscillations of the Belousov-Zhabotinskii(BZ) type in a batch