Description:
NIEMANN-PICK DISEASE: TYPE UNSPECIFIED
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Repository
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NIGMS Human Genetic Cell Repository
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| Subcollection |
Heritable Diseases |
| Class |
Disorders of Lipid Metabolism |
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Cell Type
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Fibroblast
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Transformant
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Untransformed
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Race
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White
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Relation to Proband
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proband
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Confirmation
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Clinical summary/Case history
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Species
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Homo sapiens
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Common Name
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Human
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Remarks
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| Passage Frozen |
3 |
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| sphingomyelin phosphodiesterase |
According to the submitter, biochemical test results for this subject showed decreased enzyme activity. EC Number: 3.1.4.12; 27% activity. |
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| Remarks |
Clinically atypical; 27% of normal sphingomyelinase activity; tested and negative for the three most common mutations in SMPD1, i.e., R496L (607608.0001), L302P (607608.0010), and P330fsX382 (607608.0011). |
| Levran O, Desnick RJ, Schuchman EH, Niemann-Pick disease: a frequent missense mutation in the acid sphingomyelinase gene of Ashkenazi Jewish type A and B patients. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A88:3748-52 1991 |
| PubMed ID: 2023926 |
| Passage Frozen |
3 |
| Split Ratio |
1:3 |
| Temperature |
37 C |
| Percent CO2 |
5% |
| Medium |
Eagle's Minimum Essential Medium with Earle's salts and non-essential amino acids with 2mM L-glutamine or equivalent |
| Serum |
15% fetal bovine serum Not inactivated |
| Substrate |
None specified |
| Subcultivation Method |
trypsin-EDTA |
| Supplement |
- |
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