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Long-term survival of the juvenile lethal arginase-deficient mouse with AAV gene therapy.
Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy - 1 Oct 2012
Lee Eun K, Hu Chuhong, Bhargava Ragini, Rozengurt Nora, Stout David, Grody Wayne W, Cederbaum Stephen D, Lipshutz Gerald S
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Arginase deficiency is characterized by hyperargininemia and infrequent episodes of hyperammonemia. Human patients suffer from neurological impairment with spasticity, loss of ambulation, seizures, and severe mental and growth retardation. In a murine model, onset of the phenotypic abnormality is heralded by weight loss beginning around day 15 with death occurring typically by postnatal day 17 with...
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