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Pathogenesis and therapies for infantile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis (infantile CLN1 disease).
Biochimica et biophysica acta - 1 Nov 2013
Hawkins-Salsbury Jacqueline A, Cooper Jonathan D, Sands Mark S
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The neuronal ceroid lipofuscinoses (NCL, Batten disease) are a group of inherited neurodegenerative diseases. Infantile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis (INCL, infantile Batten disease, or infantile CLN1 disease) is caused by a deficiency in the soluble lysosomal enzyme palmitoyl protein thioesterase-1 (PPT1) and has the earliest onset and fastest progression of all the NCLs. Several therapeutic strategies...
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