| Literature DB >> 1638075 |
Y Tomita1, Y Kondo, S Ito, M Hara, T Yoshimura, H Igarashi, H Tagami.
Abstract
We report a male infant with Menkes' disease who showed, at the age of 3 months, slow growth, hair abnormalities such as pili torti and white hair, and low levels of serum copper and ceruloplasmin. The exceptionally bright portions of his hair contained eumelanin and pheomelanin at levels only half those of normal Japanese controls. After subcutaneous administration of copper-histidinate for 2 months, his scalp hair changed to dark brown.Entities:
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Year: 1992 PMID： 1638075 DOI： 10.1159/000247407
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Dermatology ISSN： 1018-8665 Impact factor: 5.366