scholarly journals Metabolism of [1-(14)C] and [2-(14)C] leucine in cultured skin fibroblasts from patients with isovaleric acidemia. Characterization of metabolic defects.

1976 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 164-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
K Tanaka ◽  
R Mandell ◽  
V E Shih
Keyword(s):  
Skin Fibroblasts ◽  
Isovaleric Acidemia ◽  
Metabolic Defects ◽  
Cultured Skin

scholarly journals Characterization of lysosomes and lysosomal enzymes from Chediak-Higashi-syndrome cultured fibroblasts

1986 ◽  
Vol 238 (2) ◽  
pp. 589-595 ◽  
Author(s):  
A L Miller ◽  
R Stein ◽  
M Sundsmo ◽  
R Y Yeh
Keyword(s):  
Lysosomal Enzymes ◽  
Specific Activity ◽  
Skin Fibroblasts ◽  
Cultured Fibroblasts ◽  
Cultured Skin ◽  
Lysosomal Dysfunction ◽  
Chediak Higashi Syndrome ◽  
Normal Controls

Chediak-Higashi-syndrome cultured skin fibroblasts were used to study the possible involvement of lysosomal enzymes and lysosomal dysfunction in this disorder. Our evidence indicated that Chediak-Higashi fibroblasts displayed a significant decrease in the specific activity of the acidic alpha-D-mannosidase (pH 4.2) compared with normal controls. Additional studies revealed a small, but significant, decrease in the rate of degradation of 125I-labelled beta-D-glucosidase that had been endocytosed into Chediak-Higashi cells.

Electron Microscopy of Fibroblasts from Myotonic Muscular Dystrophy Patients

1981 ◽  
Vol 39 ◽  
pp. 498-499
Author(s):  
S. E. Miller ◽  
G. B. Hartwig ◽  
R. A. Nielsen ◽  
A. P. Frost ◽  
A. D. Roses
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Muscular Dystrophy ◽  
Genetic Diseases ◽  
Skin Fibroblasts ◽  
Inborn Errors ◽  
Cytoplasmic Inclusions ◽  
Cultured Skin ◽  
Myotonic Muscular Dystrophy ◽  
Glycosaminoglycan Metabolism

Many genetic diseases can be demonstrated in skin cells cultured in vitro from patients with inborn errors of metabolism. Since myotonic muscular dystrophy (MMD) affects many organs other than muscle, it seems likely that this defect also might be expressed in fibroblasts. Detection of an alteration in cultured skin fibroblasts from patients would provide a valuable tool in the study of the disease as it would present a readily accessible and controllable system for examination. Furthermore, fibroblast expression would allow diagnosis of fetal and presumptomatic cases. An unusual staining pattern of MMD cultured skin fibroblasts as seen by light microscopy, namely, an increase in alcianophilia and metachromasia, has been reported; both these techniques suggest an altered glycosaminoglycan metabolism An altered growth pattern has also been described. One reference on cultured skin fibroblasts from a different dystrophy (Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy) reports increased cytoplasmic inclusions seen by electron microscopy. Also, ultrastructural alterations have been reported in muscle and thalamus biopsies from MMD patients, but no electron microscopical data is available on MMD cultured skin fibroblasts.

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