Description:
ZELLWEGER SYNDROME; ZS
Repository
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NIGMS Human Genetic Cell Repository
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Subcollection |
Heritable Diseases |
Class |
Other Disorders of Known Biochemistry |
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 |
20 |
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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 |
Group 2; typical signs including dysmorphic features, hypotonia, and stippled epiphyses; neuronal migration defect; fibroblasts show impaired capacity to degrade VLCFA and phytanic acid, defective plasmalogen synthesis, and abnormal catalase distribribution |
Roscher AA, Hoefler S, Hoefler G, Paschke E, Paltauf F, Moser A, Moser H, Genetic and phenotypic heterogeneity in disorders of peroxisome biogenesis--a complementation study involving cell lines from 19 patients. Pediatr Res26:67-72 1989 |
PubMed ID: 2475849 |
Passage Frozen |
20 |
Split Ratio |
1:2 |
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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