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Menkes Kinky Hair Syndrome

Known as: Kinky Hair Disease, Menkes' Disease, Congenital Hypocupremia 
An inherited disorder of copper metabolism transmitted as an X-linked trait and characterized by the infantile onset of HYPOTHERMIA, feeding… 
National Institutes of Health

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BrachycephalyCeruloplasminCutis LaxaFetal Growth Retardation

Broader (3)

Cerebral degenerationDisorders of copper metabolismSyndrome

Narrower (1)

Hair defect with photosensitivity and mental retardation

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2004
2004
Active and passive tobacco smoke exposure: a comparison of maternal and child hair cotinine levels.
The objective of this study was to compare tobacco smoke exposure in mothers and their healthy children less than 3 years old… 
Highly Cited
1984
Highly Cited
1984
Luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone analog treatment of boys with hypothalamic hamartoma and true precocious puberty.
A long-acting analog of LRH (LRHa) has been shown to suppress pituitary gonadotropin and estradiol secretion to prepubertal… 
1984
1984
CT manifestations of Menkes' kinky hair syndrome (trichopoliodystrophy).
A patient with Menkes' syndrome is reported. This patient has survived to the age of six years without mental retardation, and… 
1982
1982
[A syndrome: uncombable hair. Observation of 6 members of a family with pili canaliculi, associated with pili torti, progressive alopecia, atopic eczema and hamartomas].
Six members of one family showed the typical clinical picture of uncombable hair (cheveux incoiffables), a syndrome first… 
1978
1978
Exploratory skin penetration findings relating to the use of lead acetate hair dyes. Hair as a test tissue for monitoring uptake of systemic lead.
Two experiments were conducted. In the first, 9 adult male subjects applied a marketed hair dye containing 2% lead acetate… 
1976
1976
Menkes' kinky hair syndrome: a genetic disease involving copper.
The kinky hair syndrome (KHS) is an X-linked defect of copper transport in man. An animal model is available in mutants at the X… 
Review
1973
Review
1973
Menkes's kinky hair syndrome.
1971
1971
Expression of two X-linked genes in human hair follicles of double heterozygotes.
Expression of the two X-linked loci glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD; EC 1.1.1.49) and hypoxanthine:guanine… 
Review
1957
Review
1957
Hair-follicle nevus; report of a case and a review of the literature concerning this lesion and some related conditions.
As far as we have been able to tell, after a thorough review of world literature, the lesion we are here reporting has not… 
1933
1933
Melanoma Studies: III. A Theory of Pigmented Moles. Their Relation to the Evolution of Hair Follicles.