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Science 13 April 1962:
Vol. 136. no. 3511, pp. 150 - 151
DOI: 10.1126/science.136.3511.150
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Oxidation of Carbon-14 Labeled Galactose by Subjects with Congenital Galactosemia

Stanton Segal 1, Alberta Blair 1, and Yale J. Topper 1

1 Clinical Endocrinology Branch, National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases, Bethesda 14, Maryland

Galactose-1-C14 oxidation was studied in eight individuals with congenital galactosemia. Although two of these subjects fulfilled the usual diagnostic criteria for this disorder, they oxidized the intravenously administered sugar to C14O2 in a nearly normal fashion.


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