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High incidence of cholesterol gallstone disease in type 1 Gaucher disease: characterizing the biliary phenotype of type 1 Gaucher disease.
Journal of inherited metabolic disease - 1 Jun 2010
Taddei Tamar H, Dziura James, Chen Shu, Yang Ruhua, Hyogo Hideyuki, Sullards Cameron, Cohen David E, Pastores Gregory, Mistry Pramod K
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BACKGROUND: In Gaucher disease (GD), lysosomal glucocerebrosidase deficiency results in glucosylceramide accumulation in macrophage lysosomes. Hepatocytes do not accumulate glucosylceramide due in part to biliary secretion. Although gallstones (GS) occur in type 1 Gaucher disease (GD1), the chemi...
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