Italian experience with Lesch-Nyhan patients and animal models of the disease

Lesch-Nyhan Disease (LND) is a rare X-linked genetic disease with hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase (HGPRT) deficiency, due to mutation in the encoding gene, located on the X-chromosome. LND patients exhibit hyperuricemia with stones due to unrecycled purine accumulation and increased s...

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Main Authors: Micheli Vanna, Bertelli Matteo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2017-12-01
Series:The EuroBiotech Journal
Subjects:
lnd
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.24190/ISSN2564-615X/2017/S2.06