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