Diagnosis of Gaucher's disease in cultured skin fibroblasts and leucocytes
- 1 September 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disease
- Vol. 1 (3) , 111-113
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01805685
Abstract
Washing skin fibroblasts or leucocytes in 0.25 mol/l sucrose increases the activity ofβ‐glucosidase at acid pH. This effect is primarily due to removal of low levels of sodium chloride, which inhibit acidβ‐glucosidase. A secondary factor for skin fibroblasts is the removal of residual phosphate buffer pH 7.3 used to wash the cells following trypsinization. As theβ‐glucosidase activity of water‐lysed leucocytes is higher at acid pH than that of a saline suspension of leucocytes, the former are better for the diagnosis of Gaucher's disease. However, more reliable results still may be obtained by assay of this enzyme in cultured skin fibroblasts.Keywords
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