Brain accumulation of lactosylceramide characterizes GALC deficiency in a zebrafish model of Krabbe disease

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Krabbe disease (KD) is an autosomal recessive sphingolipidosis due to mutations of the GALC gene encoding for the lysosomal β-galactosylceramidase (GALC) that removes β-galactose from β-galactosylceramide, β-lactosylceramide (LacCer) and the neurotoxic metabolite β-galactosylsphingosine (psychosine). At present, the accumulation of psychosine is thought to be the main cause of demyelination, neurodegeneration and...

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