title: Tryptophan metabolism in skin diseases.
abstract: In a number of skin disturbances conditioned or aggravated by sunlight and/or mainly diffused to the cutaneous connective tissue (present acquired pellagra, lupus erythematosus, porphyria cutanea tarda, actinic reticuloid, Rothmund-Thomson syndrome, lymphocytoma cutis, scleroderma, dermatomyositis, burns, linphomas, parapsoriasis, acrodermatitis enteropathica) excretive changes were found only in the "via kynurenine" metabolites. As a rule kynureniase activity was reduced and tryptophan-pyrrolase activity was increased. In the epidermis tryptophan leads to niacin pathway was found to be present and sometimes autonomous.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D006801:Humans; D007737:Kynurenine / Q000378:metabolism; D012871:Skin Diseases / Q000378:metabolism*; D013472:Sunlight; D014364:Tryptophan / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D007737:Kynurenine; D014364:Tryptophan