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A mouse model for Niemann-Pick disease. Influence of genetic background on disease expression in spm/spm mice.
The Journal of heredity - 1 Jan 2000
Miyawaki S, Yoshida H, Mitsuoka S, Enomoto H, Ikehara S
Abstract excerpt
Sphingomyelinosis (spm), an autosomal recessive mutation in mice originally occurred in the C57BL/KsJ inbred strain. Spm/spm mice of this genetic background show striking hepatosplenomegaly with a marked accumulation of sphingomyelin and cholesterol due to a deficiency of sphingomyelinase. However, in spm/spm mice of C57BL/6J and DBA/2J backgrounds, hepatosplenomegaly was not pronounced in spite of marked...
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