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PubMed1977

[HLA-B27 antigen and alkaptonuria].

Study of urinary homogentisic acid and a determinantion of group HLA were carried out for 36 members of a family spread over three generations with three cases of ochronotic rheumatism in the second generation. Alkaptonuria was discovered in seven other subjects, six of them members of the third generation: urinary elimination was poor, less than 0.60 g/24 hours. There is a certain degree of consanguinity in the family studied here and these findings do not therefore rule out a recessive autosomal transmission of the alkaptonuria. They do however lead to the consideration that alkaptonuria may sometimes be found in heterozygotic subjects. A genetic relationship between HLA complex and alkaptonuria can only be claimed with difficulty from this familial study, but the high frequency of B 27 antigen (29 out of 36 members carring it) leaves room for the hypothesis that the B 27 gene, or more precisely a gene associated with the B 27 gene, plays a part in the development of ochronotic rheumatism.

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PubMed1992

Alkaptonuria and ochronosis: case report and review.

Alkaptonuria is a rare genetic disorder in which the enzyme homogentisic acid oxidase is deficient, resulting in the accumulation of homogentisic acid in various bodily tissues. This is a multisystem disorder with a characteristic blue-black discoloration of the skin and cartilage, which is termed ochronosis. Herein we report a profound case of ochronosis secondary to alkaptonuria. Furthermore, we review the clinical manifestations of alkaptonuria and discuss the spectrum of ochronosis, both endogenous and exogenous.

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PubMed1991

Characterization of the pigment from homogentisic acid and urine and tissue from an alkaptonuria patient.

When urine samples from alkaptonuria patients are allowed to stand, they turn black, presumably owing to the oxidation of homogentisic acid to a melanin-like substance. We report the characterization of the pigments formed by polymerization of (a) the components in the urine from a patient with alkaptonuria and (b) homogentisic acid. The absorption spectra and electron spin resonance signals of these pigments are similar to those of eumelanins. Irradiation of the pigments with nitroblue tetrazolium caused reduction of the tetrazolium; this was partially inhibited by superoxide dismutase. Irradiation of Ehrlich ascites carcinoma cells with the pigments from homogentisic acid or urine caused cell lysis. Since this lysis was inhibited by catalase, we have concluded that it was mediated by H2O2. A similar pigment was also extracted from the tissue from an alkaptonuria patient. It is suggested that the degeneration of tissue in vivo may be due to the deposition of melanin-like pigments in the tissues, probably in combination with metal ions.

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PubMed1979

Alkaptonuria.

Alkaptonuria is found relatively frequently in Slovakia, Eastern Czechoslovakia (1 in 25,000 inhabitants). Reported herein are the clinical, radiographic, and biochemical aspects and genetics of 126 patients with alkaptonuria. Forty-seven were diagnosed in childhood; the sequential appearance of each manifestation is documented by decade. A simple screening method for this disorder is described. Pedigree analyses confirm recessive inheritance. Possible genetic and sociologic factors responsible for this high frequency of alkaptonuria are discussed.

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PubMed1975

[Alkaptonuria with ochronosis and monoclonal gammopathy].

A case of alkaptonuria with ochronosis is described. It is suggested that such cases are not so much rare as unobserved. Their aetiology is to be sought in a metabolic error, though the pathogenesis is not clear. The syndrome is of interest because ochronosis, wich is the articular manifestation, is one of the few rheumatological affections with a certain aetiology. The case described is unusual on account of the presence of monoclonal gammopathy. Since the presence of myeloma and macroglobulinaemia could be excluded, an immunological relation was sought between the alkaptonuria and the particular serological picture.

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PubMed1977

HLA antigens and alkaptonuria.

Thirty members of Family C, which included cases of alkaptonuria and ochronosis, were investigated by means of HLA typing and homogentistic acid determination. The antigen HLA B27 was found in one of the two members of the first generation, in all eight members of the second generation, and in 15 of the 21 members of the third generation. Eight of 10 subjects suffering from alkaptonuria, with or without ochronotic arthropathy or spondylosis, had B27. The gene for B27 is not the gene determining homogentisic acid oxydase synthesis but this study suggests that it may be associated or linked to it.

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PubMed1979

Alkaptonuria with extensive ochronosis.

A 59-year-old woman with previously documented alkaptonuria was examined for extensive ochronosis of recent onset. The cause of the extensive skin pigmentations were thought to be secondary to decreased renal clearance of homogentisic acid because of a decline in the patient's renal function. If extensive or rapidly progressive skin pigmentation is noted in a patient with alkaptonuria, then evaluation of the patient's renal status should be done because unrelated renal disease has been reported in patients with severe ochronosis.

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PubMed1978

Alkaptonuria in the Trencín District of Czechoslovakia.

For several years the Clinical Genetics Research Laboratory at Martin, Czechoslovakia, has been studying alkaptonuria (AU) in the northern part of the District of Trencín in Slovakia. These affected individuals are part of a group of 103 alkaptonurics originated mostly in the mountainous parts of Slovakia. We report results of pedigree analyses; population and affected-family biochemical urine screening; estimation of inbreeding coefficient, of exogamy rate and of average marital distance and of calculation of the frequency of the AU allele, and of homozygotes and heterozygotes in this portion of the Trencín District. Twelve homozygotes were found, but seven originated from a single hamlet in which a founder effect - genetic drift and inbreeding - are thought to account for the high prevalence of AU.

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PubMed1992

[A rare metabolic disease: alkaptonuria--ochronosis].

The authors describe the case of a 40-year-old female patient. Since childhood her urine had caused black discoloration on her underwear. For about a year the skin of the axillae and pinnae had been bluish-black without subjective complaints. One year before admission, pain in the thoracic and lumbar spine began, with limitation of motion. Examination of the urine, histological and electron microscopical findings, and X-ray examination of the spinal column confirmed the diagnosis of alkaptonuria and congenital ochronosis.

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PubMed1979

Diagnosis of alkaptonuria in children.

Thirty-nine patiens with alkaptonuria diagnosed in childhood were studied with repeated detailed clinical and biochemical examinations. Darkening of the urine, although varying from time to time, was present in all. Pigmentary changes in axillary regions began to appear at 8--10 years with concomitant staining of underwear. Ear cartilage staining occurred in only 1, and none had scleral involvement or anthropathy. Dark brown to black staining of ear cerumen is present even in earliest childhood. This distinctive symptom in a child with no other ochronotic manifestations and even normal urine colour should alert one to possible alkaptonnuria. Other findings are described in detail.

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PubMed1992