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treatment for ornithine carbamoylase deficiency? - trinath

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treatment for ornithine carbamoylase deficiency? - trinath
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03-10-2009, 01:10 PM
i am not sure but is it arginine...if yes why so..can anyone plzz explain????
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03-10-2009, 03:11 PM
Arginine
Enhances production of ornithine, which facilitates incorporation of waste nitrogen into the formation of citrulline and argininosuccinate.

http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/950672-treatment


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03-10-2009, 05:07 PM
arginine enhances ornithine but then u have ornithine transcabamoylase deficiency...and this enzyme is reqd for further conversion to citrulline for urea cycle to go on...so can plzz explain a lil more..
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03-10-2009, 05:54 PM
Citrulline can be derived from multiple sources:

from arginine via nitric oxide synthase (NOS)
from ornithine via catabolism of proline or glutamine/glutamate

see more in this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arginine


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