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How close are we to therapies for Sanfilippo disease?
Metabolic brain disease - 1 Feb 2018
Gaffke Lidia, Pierzynowska Karolina, Piotrowska Ewa, Węgrzyn Grzegorz
Abstract excerpt
Sanfilippo disease is one of mucopolysaccharidoses (MPS), a group of lysosomal storage diseases characterized by accumulation of partially degraded glycosaminoglycans (GAGs). It is classified as MPS type III, though it is caused by four different genetic defects, determining subtypes A, B, C and D. In each subtype of MPS III, the primary storage GAG is heparan sulfate (HS), but mutations leading to A, B, C, and D...
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