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Serotonin Depletion by Dietary Leucine

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MAPLE syrup disease (branched-chain ketonuria) is an apparently familial disease associated with mental retardation and biochemically characterized by enhanced urinary excretion of branched-chain amino-acids and their products.

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YUWILER, A., GELLER, E. Serotonin Depletion by Dietary Leucine. Nature 208, 83–84 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/208083a0

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