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Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases > Metabolic Diseases > Metabolism, Inborn Errors > Amino Acid Transport Disorders, Inborn
Congenital, Hereditary, and Neonatal Diseases and Abnormalities > Genetic Diseases, Inborn > Metabolism, Inborn Errors > Amino Acid Transport Disorders, Inborn

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Amino Acid Transport Disorders, Inborn  

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  • Inborn Transport Disorders, Amino Acid
  • Inherited Amino Acid Transport Disorders
  • Transport Disorders, Amino Acid, Inborn

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  • Disorders characterized by defective transport of amino acids across cell membranes. These include deficits in transport across brush-border epithelial cell membranes of the small intestine (MICROVILLI) and KIDNEY TUBULES; transport across the basolateral membrane; and transport across the membranes of intracellular organelles. (From Nippon Rinsho 1992 Jul;50(7):1587-92)

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  • 2000

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