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Mice with adenine phosphoribosyltransferase deficiency develop fatal 2,8-dihydroxyadenine lithiasis.
Human gene therapy - 20 Aug 1996
Redhead N J, Selfridge J, Wu C L, Melton D W
Abstract excerpt
Deficiencies in different steps of purine metabolism give rise to a number of human inherited disorders. Lesch-Nyhan syndrome is a severe neurological disorder, caused by a deficiency in the purine salvage enzyme hypoxanthine phosphoribosyltransferase (HPRT). HPRT-deficient mice have been generated, but have proved to be an unsuccessful model of the human disease. We have suggested that this may be due to a...
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