[Impairment of social interaction, coordination disorder, and hypersensitivity in Asperger's syndrome].

Asperger's syndrome is not accompanied with intellectual disability, however it has social impairments as well as autism and demonstrates failure to develop peer relationships according to each life stage. Social reciprocal behavior deficits are revealed typically during childhood. On the other hand, after school age these deficits are modified by environmental factors that may induce secondary disorders consequently.

[Case of dentatorubral-pallidoluysian atrophy with onset of psychomotor retardation in infancy].

We report a patient with dentatorubral-pallidoluysian atrophy (DRPLA). She developed normally until the age of 6 month, when she could sit by herself. However, her psychomotor development was subsequently slow with gradual appearance of equilibrium disturbances and involuntary movements such as polymyoclonia and chorea.

Automated screening system for purine and pyrimidine metabolism disorders using high-performance liquid chromatography.

An automated screening system for purine and pyrimidine metabolism disorders using high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) with column switching is described. The system consists of a reversed-phase column, a cation-exchange column, a column switch, four sets of ultraviolet absorbance detectors, a microcomputer and other conventional equipment. As this system permits the simultaneous determination of urinary orotic acid, uracil, dihydrouracil, pseudouridine, xanthine, 2,8-dihydroxyadenine and succinyladenosine, it offers a useful method for the detection of orotic aciduria, dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase deficiency, dihydropyrimidinuria, xanthinuria, adenine phosphoribosyltransferase deficiency and adenylosuccinase deficiency.

Automated determination of hypoxanthine and xanthine in urine by high-performance liquid chromatography with column switching.

We report a high-performance liquid chromatographic method with column switching for urinary hypoxanthine and xanthine. Analyses were carried out with both a reversed-phase column and an anion-exchange column connected by a column switch and controlled automatically by a computerized system controller. The relationships between standard concentrations and peak heights were linear in a concentration range of 1 to 1000 nmol/ml.