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Mutation analysis of the acid beta-glucosidase gene in a patient with type 3 Gaucher disease and neutralizing antibody to alglucerase.
Mutation research - 1 Nov 2001
Germain D P, Kaneski C R, Brady R O
Abstract excerpt
The beneficial effects of macrophage-targeted glucocerebrosidase (alglucerase, Ceredase) in patients with Gaucher disease are well established. A minority of recipients develop transient non-neutralizing antibodies to the exogenous enzyme. A 7-year-old patient with type 3 Gaucher disease, whose clinical course began to deteriorate while receiving alglucerase developed a progressively increasing titer of IgG...
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