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Muscle phosphofructokinase deficiency in a myopathic child with severe mental retardation and aplasia of cerebellar vermis.

Muscle phosphofructokinase ( PFK) deficiency in man is responsible for at least two forms of myopathy; one is characterized by painful contractures of muscles and typically occurs in adults, whereas the other is often disabling and typically occurs in childhood, with psychomotor and growth retardation. In this investigation, a young myopathic patient with severe mental retardation and aplasia of the cerebellar vermis presented with muscular hypotrophy of the limbs, generalized hypotonia, convergent strabismus and marked pain during passive movement. Biopsy of quadriceps femoris muscle showed variation in the fiber size with sarcoplasmic areas positive for periodic acid-Schiff stain. Histochemical qualitative reaction for PFK showed no staining of muscle fibers; ultrastructural studies showed abnormal accumulation of glycogen granules in both intermyofibrillar and subsarcolemmal areas. While some enzyme activities in the muscular crude extract were significantly lower than in controls, direct assay of PFK revealed no activity, thus demonstrating that the child's myopathy was due to the lack of PFK activity.[1]

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  1. Muscle phosphofructokinase deficiency in a myopathic child with severe mental retardation and aplasia of cerebellar vermis. Pastoris, O., Dossena, M., Vercesi, L., Scelsi, R., Torcetta, F., Savasta, S., Bianchi, E. Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery. (1992) [Pubmed]
 
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