A precise and reliable screening assay for glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency would greatly help avoiding unwanted outcomes due to bilirubin neurotoxicity in neonatal jaundice and antimalarial-induced haemolytic anaemia in malaria patients.
G6PD deficiency is a major cause of neonatal jaundice and acute hemolyticanemia, and recently, G6PD has been associated with diseases including inflammation and cancer.
Mostly G6PD deficient cases are asymptomatic though they may have the risk of neonatal jaundice (NNJ) and acute intravascular hemolysis during oxidative stress.
The role of G6PD as an antioxidant enzyme has been recognized in erythrocytes for a long time, as its deficiency is associated with neonatal jaundice, drug- or infection-mediated hemolytic crisis, favism and, less commonly, chronic non-spherocytic hemolytic anemia.
To determine the prevalence of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency in the population tested, and to evaluate the prevalence of neonatal jaundice in newborns with G6PD deficiency.
This review highlights the major clinical features of both Gilbert's Syndrome and G-6-PD deficiency, and surveys a series of studies related to neonatal jaundice in G-6-PD-deficient neonates culminating in the documentation of an interaction between the two conditions that is crucial to the pathogenesis of hyperbilirubinemia.
In G6PD Madrid, the mutation, located in exon 10, results in a deficient variant associated with neonatal jaundice and life-long chronic nonspherocytic haemolytic anaemia (CNSHA).
Using a non-radioactive PCR-SSCP technique, we identified a novel glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) mutation in a Chinese newborn with neonatal jaundice.
Single point mutations were also found in G6PD Metaponto (Southern Italy) and in G6PD Ilesha (Nigeria), which are asymptomatic, and in G6PD Chatham, which was observed in an Indian boy with neonatal jaundice.
The new G-6-PD type was never associated with clinical manifestations in any cases except neonatal jaundice in some of the newborns with this enzyme deficiency.
Mutation of the UGT1A1 gene, glycine to arginine at codon 71 (G71R), is related to the development of neonatal jaundice in East Asian populations but the frequency of this mutation is rare among Caucasian populations.
In this study we examined the effects of OSM on CAR-mediated signaling to investigate its potential role in neonatal jaundice via the CAR-UGT1A1 pathway.