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Plasma amino acid concentrations in 33 male alcoholic patients with pellagra (age 20-68 years) were compared with those in 17 healthy male subjects (age 20-45 years). Pellagra diagnosis was made on the basis of the typical clinical skin picture, and low urinary excretion of N'methylnicotinamide and
Routine serum and cerebrospinal (CSF) amino acid estimations were carried out on a patient with pellagra and malnutrition. Urea levels were low and serum and CSF ammonia levels elevated. A remarkable observation was that the serum glutamic acid level rose to 44.9 times normal, which is far higher
Mutations in the main intestinal and kidney luminal neutral amino acid transporter B(0)AT1 (Slc6a19) lead to Hartnup disorder, a condition that is characterized by neutral aminoaciduria and in some cases pellagra-like symptoms. These latter symptoms caused by low-niacin are thought to result from