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No evidence for substrate accumulation in Parkinson brains with GBA mutations.
Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society - 1 Jul 2015
Gegg Matthew E, Sweet Lindsay, Wang Bing H, Shihabuddin Lamya S, Sardi Sergio Pablo, Schapira Anthony H V
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: To establish whether Parkinson's disease (PD) brains previously described to have decreased glucocerebrosidase activity exhibit accumulation of the lysosomal enzyme's substrate, glucosylceramide, or other changes in lipid composition. METHODS: Lipidomic analyses and cholesterol measurements were performed on the putamen (n = 5-7) and cerebellum (n = 7-14) of controls, Parkinson's disease brains with...
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