Gaucher disease: understanding the molecular pathogenesis of sphingolipidoses

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Gaucher disease is a typical lysosomal storage disease, resulting from an inborn deficiency of glucocerebrosidase. This leads to the accumulation of glycolipids in macrophages, particularly those in the liver, bone marrow, spleen and lung. In addition, disease of the nervous system can arise as a result of the accumulation of endogenous glycosphingolipid metabolites in brain tissue. About 150 mutations of the...

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