Description:
WERNICKE-KORSAKOFF SYNDROME
Repository
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NIGMS Human Genetic Cell Repository
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Subcollection |
Heritable Diseases |
Class |
Disorders of Carbohydrate Metabolism |
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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Ethnicity
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AUSTRALIAN
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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 |
10 |
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IDENTIFICATION OF SPECIES OF ORIGIN |
Species of Origin Confirmed by Nucleoside Phosphorylase, Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase, and Lactate Dehydrogenase Isoenzyme Electrophoresis |
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Remarks |
Australian; 5 year history of excess alcohol intake; confusion; confabulation; no short term memory; alcoholic liver disease; normal neurological examination |
Etcheberrigaray E, Gibson GE, Alkon DL, Molecular mechanisms of memory and the pathophysiology of Alzheimer's disease. Ann N Y Acad Sci747:245-55 1994 |
PubMed ID: 7847674 |
Passage Frozen |
10 |
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 |
10% fetal bovine serum Not inactivated |
Substrate |
None specified |
Subcultivation Method |
trypsin-EDTA |
Supplement |
- |
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