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S. S. LICHTMAN, M.D.

Arch Intern Med. 1934;53(5):680-688.

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Disorders in the metabolism of tyrosine are observed in the inborn metabolic anomaly, alkaptonuria, and in so-called tyrosinosis. In the latter condition, tyrosine, dihydroxyphenylalanine, hydroxyphenylpyruvic acid and hydroxyphenyl acetic acid appear in the urine.¹ Tyrosine is occasionally found in the urine in cases of cystinuria.² tyrosinuria may also occur independently of any anomaly of metabolism. The substance has been recovered in crystalline form from the urine of a normal subject³ and in various pathologic conditions, mainly involving the liver and biliary passages.⁴ The unreliability of the crystalloscopic method of diagnosis was emphasized in a previous communication.⁵

Frerichs and Städeler,⁶ who first demonstrated the presence of leucine and tyrosine in the urine of a patient with acute yellow atrophy of the liver, established the basis for the belief that the amino-acids excreted in the urine in this disease are derived from the decomposition of the liver proteins. In view of the . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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From the Medical Division, service of Dr. George Baehr, and the Laboratories of the Mount Sinai Hospital.

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