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Enzyme Replacement in Gaucher Disease
118 Gaucher disease is the most common lysosomal storage disorder (Box 1). A defi ciency of the enzyme glucocerebrosidase (Figure 1) causes accumulation of the glycolipid glucocerebroside in macrophages throughout the body. In the viscera, glucocerebroside arises mainly from the biodegradation of red and white blood cells. In the brain, glucocerebroside arises from the turnover of complex lipid...
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Gaucher disease is the most common lysosomal storage disease, and the first lysosomal storage disease for which a specific therapy has been developed. Enzyme replacement therapy, with glucocerebrosidase purified from human placentae, was introduced in 1991. Recombinant human glucocerebrosidase, produced by Chinese hamster ovary cells in tissue culture, became available in 1994 and has replaced ...
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In Gaucher disease type I (GD, OMIM #230800), deficient activity of the enzyme glucocerebrosidase results in hepatosplenomegaly, cytopenia and skeletal disease. Skeletal disease leads to chronic bone pain and/or severe complications such as pathological fractures, avascular necrosis and bone crises. Enzyme Replacement Therapy symptoms of the disease with doses ranging between 15 and 120 U/kg/4w...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: PLoS Medicine
سال: 2004
ISSN: 1549-1676
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0010021