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“In consequence endogenous creatine production probably is severely decreased because of inhibition of the rate-limiting transamidination step by ornithine.”
“We conclude that in gyrate atrophy patients, formation of guanidinoacetate, creatine , and possibly phosphocreatine is inhibited at the transaminidation step by the high concentrations of ornithine.”