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The use of phenylpropionic acid as a loading test for medium-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency

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Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disease

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  1. G. Rumsby

    Present address: Department of Chemical Pathology, Royal Marsden Hospital, Fulham Road, SW3 6JJ, London, UK

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  1. Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Hospital for Sick Children and Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, WC1N 1EH, London, UK

    J. W. T. Seakins & G. Rumsby

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Seakins, J.W.T., Rumsby, G. The use of phenylpropionic acid as a loading test for medium-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency. J Inherit Metab Dis 11 (Suppl 2), 221–224 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01804241

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