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Tyrosyluria in Human Subjects

Nature volume 189, pages 323–324 (1961)Cite this article

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TYROSYLURIA, that is, an abnormal excretion of aromatic metabolites of tyrosine, has long been known to occur in human subjects in ascorbic acid deficiency, particularly after a high tyrosine diet; it is readily abolished by feeding ascorbic acid. Recently, however, Bloxam et al. 1 have reported fairly rare cases of a tyrosyluria in apparently normal infants which did not seem to result from ascorbic acid-deficiency and which disappeared spontaneously with time.

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  1. National Spinal Injuries Centre, Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Aylesbury, Bucks.

    R. ROBINSON

  2. R.A.F. Institute of Aviation Medicine, Farnborough, Hants.

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ROBINSON, R., SMITH, P. Tyrosyluria in Human Subjects. Nature 189, 323–324 (1961). https://doi.org/10.1038/189323a0

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