{"id":239,"date":"2006-06-13T17:23:36","date_gmt":"2006-06-13T22:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/13\/alkaptonuria-urine-dev\/"},"modified":"2006-06-13T17:23:36","modified_gmt":"2006-06-13T22:23:36","slug":"alkaptonuria-urine-dev","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/13\/alkaptonuria-urine-dev\/","title":{"rendered":"Alkaptonuria patient&#8217;s urine used as film developer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>This is bizarre:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThis picture of a patient who had alkaptonuria (Fig. 1) was taken by my father, Dr. Ian Maxwell, in 1957 and was <em>developed using the patient&#8217;s own urine<\/em> [emphasis added].<\/p>\n<p>Alkaptonuria was the first described &#8220;inborn error of metabolism.&#8221; This rare (< 1 per 250 000 births) hereditary recessive disorder is characterized by a triad of excretion of homogentisic acid in the urine, ochronosis (dark pigmentation of the connective tissues) and early-onset arthritis&hellip;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmaj.ca\/cgi\/content\/full\/172\/8\/1002\">Continue reading<\/a> and see urine-developed photo in the Canadian Medical Association Journal<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.f295.org\/DIYforum\/cgi-bin\/forum\/Blah.pl?\">f295 DIY Photography Forum<\/a> member <a href=\"http:\/\/taco.thoma.be\/gallery\/\">taco<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is bizarre: This picture of a patient who had alkaptonuria (Fig. 1) was taken by my father, Dr. Ian Maxwell, in 1957 and was developed using the patient&#8217;s own urine [emphasis added]. Alkaptonuria was the first described &#8220;inborn error of metabolism.&#8221; This rare (< 1 per 250 000 births) hereditary recessive disorder is characterized [&hellip;]\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[90,457,1813],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random","tag-alkaptonuria","tag-developer","tag-urine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The constant WPCACHEHOME must be set in the file wp-config.php and point at the WP Super Cache plugin directory. -->