metabolic disease: References & Edit History
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Additional Reading
Nenad Blau, Marinus Duran, and Milan E. Blaskovics (eds.), Physician’s Guide to the Laboratory Diagnosis of Metabolic Diseases, 2nd ed. (2002), and William L. Nyhan and Pinar T. Ozand, Atlas of Metabolic Diseases (1998), are detailed, practical guides for physicians caring for patients with metabolic diseases. Charles J. Epstein, “Genetic Disorders and Birth Defects,” in Abraham M. Rudolph, Julien I.E. Hoffman, and Colin D. Rudolph (eds.), Rudolph’s Pediatrics, 20th ed. (1996), pp. 265–374, offers an overview of basic genetic principles and summaries of specific metabolic disorders. Gerard Michal (ed.), Biochemical Pathways: An Atlas of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (1999), is a detailed atlas of the biochemical pathways affected in metabolic disease; and Charles R. Scriver, Arthur L. Beaudet, William S. Sly, and David Valle (eds.), The Metabolic and Molecular Bases of Inherited Disease, 8th ed. (2001), is a comprehensive textbook describing metabolic disorders in detail.
Article Contributors
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Gregory Enns
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Director, Biochemical Genetics Program, Stanford University, California.
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Article History
| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Add new Web site: Academia - Fructose and metabolic diseases: New findings, new questions (PDF). | Apr 11, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Healthline - Nutrition and Metabolism Disorders. | Sep 03, 2019 | ||
| Removed three tables. | Aug 07, 2018 | ||
| Changed "mental retardation" to "intellectual disability." | Feb 08, 2016 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases. | Jun 15, 2012 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Library of Medicine - Metabolic Disorders. | Jun 15, 2012 | ||
| New illustrations added. | Jan 21, 2009 | ||
| Article revised. | Feb 16, 2006 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Aug 23, 1998 |