Metabolic disorders is a medical problems which affects the production of energy within individual animal cells. In general, the genetic metabolic disorders are caused by genetic defects that result in missing or improperly constructed enzyme necessary for some step in the metabolic process of the cells.
The most of metabolic disorder are:
- Disorders of carbohydrate metabolism
- Disorders of lipid metabolism
- Disorders amino acid metabolism
- Disorders of fatty acid oxidation and mitochondrial metabolism
- Disorders of porphyrin metabolism
- Disorders of purine or pyrimidine metabolism
- Disorders of steroid metabolism
- Disorders of mitochondrial function
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