Toxicity of glucosylsphingosine (glucopsychosine) to cultured neuronal cells: a model system for assessing neuronal damage in Gaucher disease type 2 and 3

Patients with Gaucher disease have been classified as type 1 nonneuronopathic, type 2 acute neuronopathic, and type 3 chronic neuronopathic phenotypes. Increased quantities of glucocerebroside and glucosylsphingosine (glucopsychosine) are present in the brain of type 2 and type 3 Gaucher patients. G...

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Main Authors: U.H Schueler, T Kolter, C.R Kaneski, J.K Blusztajn, M Herkenham, K Sandhoff, R.O Brady
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2003-12-01
Series:Neurobiology of Disease
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096999610300161X