Polyneuropathy, alopecia areata, and chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis.

A 14-year-old boy developed alopecia totalis shortly after a pertussis-like illness and, subsequently, developed chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis and diffuse polyneuritis.

Cerebrospinal fluid glycine in nonketotic hyperglycinemic: effect of treatment with sodium benzoate and a ventricular shunt.

In three infants with nonketotic hyperglycinemia, glycine was increased three-to fourfold in plasma, 13- to 28-fold in lumbar spinal fluid, and was higher yet in ventricular fluid. Oral sodium benzoate lowered cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) glycine by greater than 40%, but did not change the abnormal plasma: CSF ratio. An adult control, made hyperglycinemic with oral glycine, had a normal plasma: CSF ratio.