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Comparative biology of the neuronal ceroid-lipofuscinoses (NCL): an overview.
American journal of medical genetics - 5 Jun 1995
Jolly R D
Abstract excerpt
Multiple forms of ceroid-lipofuscinosis occur in human beings and animals. They are characterized by brain and retinal atrophy associated with selective necrosis of neurons. This neurodegenerative disease appears associated with the disease process rather than storage of fluorescent lipopigment per se, and there is now growing evidence that pathogenesis may involve mitochondria rather than a primary defect of...
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