Aminolevulinic acid dehydratase genotype
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Pornchai Sithisarankul; Brian S. Schwartz; Byung-Kook Lee; Karl T. Kelsey; Paul
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Article
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1997
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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The first intermediate substrate in the heme synthetic pathway, 5-aminolevulinic acid (ALA), is neurotoxic in animal models and may be responsible for some of the adverse neurologic outcomes in lead poisoning and porphyria in adult humans. ALA is a substrate for the enzyme aminolevulinic acid dehydr