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Guy M. McKhann, MD; William Ho; Silvio Varon, MD; Charles Raiborn

Arch Neurol. 1969;20(5):542-547.

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AMONG the degenerative diseases of the nervous system of metabolic origin, there is a group of conditions in which substances accumulate to excess within neurons. In some of these processes, the nature of the stored material has been well characterized. In Tay-Sachs disease, the accumulation of a particular ganglioside is well-documented. Recently, there have been suggestions about the nature of the enzymatic defect; for example, the dysfunction of a catabolic enzyme, a lipid hexoseaminidase¹ (oral communication, with L. Svennerholm, MD, May 1968). In other diseases, the fact that there is storage of some material is well-documented, but the composition of the stored material and the nature of the metabolic defect is not known. An example of this type of disease is the late infantile form of neuronal storage disease.

The study of the neuronal storage diseases is handicapped by the fact that not all cells show the storage . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Stanford, Calif

From the departments of pediatrics and human development (Drs. McKhann and Ho), and genetics (Mr. Raiborn and Dr. Varon), Lt. Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Laboratories for Molecular Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, Calif. Dr. McKhann is now with the Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, and Mr. Raiborn and Dr. Varon are now with the Department of Biology, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, Calif.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Dec 2, 1968; accepted Jan 11, 1969.

Reprint requests to Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore 21205 (Dr. McKhann).

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