PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - G B Barlow
TI  - Excretion of polyamines by children with Beckwith's syndrome.
AID  - 10.1136/adc.55.1.40
DP  - 1980 Jan 01
TA  - Archives of Disease in Childhood
PG  - 40--42
VI  - 55
IP  - 1
4099  - http://adc.bmj.com/content/55/1/40.short
4100  - http://adc.bmj.com/content/55/1/40.full
SO  - Arch Dis Child1980 Jan 01; 55
AB  - The urinary excretion of the polyamines--putrescine, spermidine, and spermine--was measured in 7 children with Beckwith's syndrome. Putrescine excretion was raised and spermidine excretion reduced. The raised putrescine and the low spermidine ratios were highly significant. These results are consistent with a disturbance in a metabolic pathway under growth hormone-like regulation.