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An infant with an inherited defect in ornithine transcarbamoylase is most likely to have an increased plasma concentration in which of the following?

A) Ammonia
B) Arginine
C) Citrulline
D) Putrescine
E) Urea


  #2

A) Ammonia

Also, orotic acid and uracil will increase


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  #3

hyperammonemia is abscent that is how we differentiate from urea cycle


  #4

Hyperammonemia
Uracil and Orotic acid increase in blood and urine that's the difference with Carbamoyl Phosphatase synthetase deficiency.

  #5

A 4 sure.

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