| 1. | Alimentary pentosuria can be acquired through fruits high in pentose.
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| 2. | Patients of pentosuria have a low concentration of the sugar d-xyloketose.
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| 3. | Research has shown that pentosuria appears in 3 forms.
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| 4. | In 1892 ( with Jastrowitz ) he was the first to describe pentosuria.
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| 5. | However, people with pentosuria do not have nonstandard metabolism of glucose, like diabetics.
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| 6. | A deficiency is responsible for pentosuria.
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| 7. | The tetrad comprises four inherited metabolic diseases : albinism, alkaptonuria, cystinuria, and pentosuria.
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| 8. | For those diagnosed with essential pentosuria, the major isozyme appears to be the same as the minor one.
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| 9. | Finally, drug-induced pentosuria can be developed by those exposed to morphine, fevers, allergies, and some hormones.
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| 10. | The most widely studied is essential pentosuria, where a couple of grams of L-xylusol are released into a person s system daily.
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