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Essential pentosuria

Enzyme or protein defect

L-Xylulose reductase

Accumulates or becomes deficient

L-Xylulose

Key features

Benign; incidental urinary reducing substance

Management

None

Not clinical guidance. Written from standard clinical biochemistry, not from the uploaded documents, and marked unreviewed. Teaching-level reference for study and database seeding only. It must not be used to manage a patient.

Recent literature

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  1. 1
    The osmo-metabolic approach: a novel and tantalizing glucose-sparing strategy in peritoneal dialysis.

    Bonomini M, Zammit V, Divino-Filho JC, Davies SJ, Di Liberato L, Arduini A, Lambie M. · 2020-08-07

    cited 30× open access unreviewed
  2. 2
    Essential tremor: Is the word "essential" really essential?

    Lenka A, Louis ED. · 2020-10-21

    cited 1× unreviewed
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    Structure and function of human xylulokinase, an enzyme with important roles in carbohydrate metabolism.

    Bunker RD, Bulloch EM, Dickson JM, Loomes KM, Baker EN. · 2012-11-23

    cited 22× unreviewed
  5. 5
    [Essential pentosuria].

    Suzuki S. · 1998-01-01

    unreviewed
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    Human L-xylulose reductase variation: family and population studies.

    Lane AB, Jenkins T. · 1985-07-01

    cited 8× unreviewed
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    For debate...Caucasian.

    Freedman BJ. · 1984-03-01

    cited 18× unreviewed

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