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Eliglustat tartrate for the treatment of adults with type 1 Gaucher disease.
Drug design, development and therapy - 1 Jan 2015
Bennett Lunawati L, Turcotte Kelsey
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The purpose of this article is to review eliglustat tartrate, a substrate reduction therapy, for the treatment of Gaucher disease type 1 (GD1). GD is an rare inborn error of metabolism caused by accumulation of lipid substrates such as glucosylceramide within the monocyte-macrophage system that affects the body by causing enlargement of the spleen and liver, destruction of bone, and abnormalities of the lungs and...
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