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Metabolic Pathways of Red Blood Cell Copper in Normal Humans and in Wilson's Disease

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One of the symptoms of Wilson's disease (hepatolenticular degeneration) is an increased output of copper in the urine. This now seems to be linked with a defect in the binding of copper to amino-acid in the blood.

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NEUMANN, P., SILVERBERG, M. Metabolic Pathways of Red Blood Cell Copper in Normal Humans and in Wilson's Disease. Nature 213, 775–779 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/213775a0

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