History, genetic, and recent advances on Krabbe disease

ACE Graziano, V Cardile - Gene, 2015 - Elsevier
Krabbe disease or globoid cell leukodystrophy is one of the classic genetic lysosomal
storage diseases with autosomal recessive inheritance that affects both central and …

Bone marrow transplantation as effective treatment of central nervous system disease in globoid cell leukodystrophy, metachromatic leukodystrophy …

W Krivit, C Peters, EG Shapiro - Current opinion in neurology, 1999 - journals.lww.com
Over 400 patients with lysosomal and peroxisomal storage diseases have received
hematopoietic stem cell transplantation from normal donors. Without treatment, all of these …

Newborn screening for Krabbe disease: the New York State model

PK Duffner, M Caggana, JJ Orsini, DA Wenger… - Pediatric …, 2009 - Elsevier
Krabbe disease is a rare inherited neurologic disorder affecting the central and peripheral
nervous systems. The disease has four phenotypes: early infantile, later onset, adolescent …

Leukodystrophy in children: a pictorial review of MR imaging features

JE Cheon, IO Kim, YS Hwang, KJ Kim, KC Wang… - Radiographics, 2002 - pubs.rsna.org
Dysmyelinating diseases, or leukodystrophies, encompass a wide spectrum of inherited
neurodegenerative disorders affecting the integrity of myelin in the brain and peripheral …

[HTML][HTML] Adult-onset leukodystrophies: a practical guide, recent treatment updates, and future directions

K Muthusamy, A Sivadasan, L Dixon… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Adult-onset leukodystrophies though individually rare are not uncommon. This group
includes several disorders with isolated adult presentations, as well as several childhood …

Imaging of white matter lesions

F Barkhof, P Scheltens - Cerebrovascular diseases, 2002 - karger.com
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is very sensitive for the detection of white matter lesions
(WML), which occur even in normal ageing. Intrinsic WML should be separated from …

Metachromatic leukodystrophy: a scoring system for brain MR imaging observations

F Eichler, W Grodd, E Grant, M Sessa… - American Journal …, 2009 - Am Soc Neuroradiology
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD) is a devastating
demyelinating disease for which novel therapies are being tested. We hypothesized that MR …

[HTML][HTML] Neurodevelopmental outcomes of umbilical cord blood transplantation in metachromatic leukodystrophy

HR Martin, MD Poe, JM Provenzale, J Kurtzberg… - Biology of Blood and …, 2013 - Elsevier
Metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD) is an inherited demyelinating disease that causes
progressive neurologic deterioration, leading to severe motor disability, developmental …

[HTML][HTML] Ceramide signalling in inherited and multifactorial brain metabolic diseases

DC Pant, S Aguilera-Albesa, A Pujol - Neurobiology of disease, 2020 - Elsevier
In recent years, research on sphingolipids, particularly ceramides, has attracted increased
attention, revealing the important roles and many functions of these molecules in several …

MRI characteristics and scoring in HDLS due to CSF1R gene mutations

C Sundal, JA Van Gerpen, AM Nicholson, C Wider… - Neurology, 2012 - AAN Enterprises
Objective: To describe the brain MRI characteristics of hereditary diffuse
leukoencephalopathy with spheroids (HDLS) with known mutations in the colony-stimulating …