Article
Animal model of Gaucher's disease from targeted disruption of the mouse glucocerebrosidase gene.
Nature - 4 Jun 1992
Tybulewicz V L, Tremblay M L, LaMarca M E, Willemsen R, Stubblefield B K, Winfield S, Zablocka B, Sidransky E, Martin B M, Huang S P
Abstract excerpt
Gaucher's disease is the most prevalent lysosomal storage disorder in humans and results from an autosomally inherited deficiency of the enzyme glucocerebrosidase (beta-D-glucosyl-N-acylsphingosine glucohydrolase), which is responsible for degrading the sphingolipid glucocerebroside. An animal mo...
Topics
- Animals
- Bone Marrow
- Brain
- Disease Models, Animal
- Female
- Gaucher Disease
- Glucosylceramidase
- Homozygote
- Lipid Metabolism
- Liver
- Lysosomes
- Male
