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ReviewJournal of inherited metabolic disease2015

The consequences of genetic and pharmacologic reduction in sphingolipid synthesis.

Raphael Schiffmann

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Review in Journal of inherited metabolic disease, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 34% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
  2. Substrate reduction therapy for inborn errors of metabolism.Emerging topics in life sciences · 2019
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Raphael SchiffmannInstitute of Metabolic Disease, Baylor Research Institute, 3812 Elm Street, Dallas, TX, USA, raphael.schiffmann@baylorhealth.edu.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A new therapy based on substrate synthesis reduction in sphingolipidoses is showing promise. The consequences of decreasing sphingolipid synthesis depend on the level at which synthetic blockage occurs and on the extent of the blockage. Complete synthetic blockage may be lethal if it includes all sphingolipids, such as in a global knockout of serine palmitoyltransferase. Partial inhibition of sphingolipid synthetic pathways is usually benign and may have beneficial effects in a number of lysosomal diseases and in more common pathologies, as seen in animal models for atherosclerosis, polycystic kidney disease, diabetes, and asthma. Studies of various forms of sphingolipid synthesis reduction serve to highlight not only the cellular role of these lipids but also the potential risks and therapeutic benefits of pharmacological agents to be used in therapy for human diseases.

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AnimalsAsthmaAtherosclerosisDiabetes MellitusDisease Models, AnimalGlucoseGlucosyltransferasesHumansLipid MetabolismLysosomesMicePolycystic Kidney DiseasesSerine C-PalmitoyltransferaseSphingolipidosesSphingolipidsUridine Diphosphateceramide glucosyltransferaseGlucoseGlucosyltransferasesSerine C-PalmitoyltransferaseSphingolipidsUridine Diphosphate

Identifiers

PMID25164785
OpenAlexW1969266001

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