Description:
NIEMANN-PICK DISEASE, TYPE C1; NPC1
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Repository
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NIGMS Human Genetic Cell Repository
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| Subcollection |
Heritable Diseases
Lysosomal Storage 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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Black/African American
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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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ISCN
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46,XY
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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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| IDENTIFICATION OF SPECIES OF ORIGIN |
Species of Origin Confirmed by Nucleoside Phosphorylase, Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase, and Lactate Dehydrogenase Isoenzyme Electrophoresis and by Chromosome Analysis |
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| Remarks |
Progressive clumsiness; upgaze palsy; poor memory; mild slowness of speech and movement; tremor; dysmetria; increased tone in ankles; fibroblasts exhibit no esterification of exogenous cholesterol; 46,XY; passage 3 at CCR |
| Split Ratio |
1:3 |
| Temperature |
37 C |
| Percent CO2 |
5% |
| Percent O2 |
AMBIENT |
| 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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