Maple Syrup Urine Disease

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Maple Syrup Urine Disease by Mind Map: Maple Syrup Urine Disease

1. High chains of amino acids

2. Poor feeding or not wanting to eat

3. Treatment: Treatment includes constant blood monitoring along with a special diet and regular testing and check-ups. The diet includes food with low levels of amino acids and a dietitian is recommended for meeting a strict but comfortable diet can reduce the neurological damage of the disease, and allow the person to live a healthy and normal life.

4. Thesis 1: RNA polymerase copies the DNA to often and fast causing the high amounts of aminoe acids.

5. Thesis 2: rRNA isn't reading a stop codon on the mRNA and is continuing to make amino acids.

6. Thesis 3: There was a mistake in the transcription to where there is a missed stop codon on the mRNA.

7. Opthitonus

8. Happens in infants

9. Infant seems perfectly healthy at birth