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A glycogen storage disease(GSD, also glycogenosisand dextrinosis) is a metabolic disordercaused by a deficiency of an enzymeor transport proteinaffecting glycogen synthesis, glycogen breakdown, or glucose breakdown, typically in musclesand/or livercells. [1] GSD has two classes of cause: genetic and environmental.
Clinical manifestations of glycogen storage disease type III are divided into four classes: [3] GSD IIIa, is the most common, (along with GSD IIIb) and which clinically includes muscle and liver involvement; GSD IIIb, which clinically has liver involvement but no muscle involvement; GSD IIIc which clinically affects liver and muscle.
Inflammatory myopathy. Allelic to McArdle disease (GSD-V) is a recently discovered disease that has a pathogenic autosomal dominant mutation in exon 16 of the PYGM gene c.1915G>C (p.Asp639His). Discovered in 2020, it affected 13 members of a family over four generations and has yet to be assigned a GSD number.
Glycogen storage disease type I (GSD I) is an inherited disease that prevents the liver from properly breaking down stored glycogen, which is necessary to maintain adequate blood sugar levels. GSD I is divided into two main types, GSD Ia and GSD Ib, which differ in cause, presentation, and treatment. There are also possibly rarer subtypes, the ...
Presentation. [edit] GLUT1 deficiency is characterized by an array of signs and symptoms including mental and motor developmental delays, infantile seizuresrefractory to anticonvulsants, ataxia, dystonia, dysarthria, opsoclonus, spasticity, other paroxysmalneurologic phenomena and sometimes deceleration of head growth also known as microcephaly.
Pericarditis refers to inflammation of the thin sac surrounding the heart. The most common symptom is sharp chest pain, which is felt in the middle or left side of the chest or sometimes in the ...
Glycogen storage disease type II has an autosomal recessive pattern of inheritance. Pompe disease has an autosomal recessive inheritance pattern. This means the defective gene is located on an autosome , and two faulty copies of the gene—one from each parent—are required to be born with the disorder.
The glycogen debranching enzyme, in humans, is the protein encoded by the gene AGL. [5] This enzyme is essential for the breakdown of glycogen, which serves as a store of glucose in the body. It has separate glucosyltransferase and glucosidase activities. [6][7] Together with phosphorylases, the enzyme mobilize glucose reserves from glycogen ...