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Free heme, even at 50100 M concentration, is a toxic molecule due to its ability to generate ROS (Gutteridge and Smith, 1988) catalyzing the oxidation of proteins, the formation of cytotoxic lipid peroxides via lipid peroxidation and damaging DNA (reviewed in Kumar and Bandyopadhyay, 2005)
Despite correcting his severe B12 and iron deficiency with supplementation, this child remained delayed 7 months after treatment and upon MRI, still showed signs of inadequate myelination, suggesting that he may never achieve full neurological function
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