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Nature Medicine  3, 719 - 720 (1997)
doi:10.1038/nm0797-719

Gene therapy for lysosomal storage disease: A no-brainer?

William S. Sly1 & Carole Vogler2

  1Edward A. Doisy Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, St. Louis, MO 63104, USA

  2Department of Pathology St. Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63104, USA

Transplants of fibroblasts secreting high levels of beta-glucuronidase decrease lesions in the brains of mice with Sly syndrome, a lysososmal storage disease (771−774).

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