By: Dr. Abhishek Kumar Pandey, Asstt. Editor-ICN LUCKNOW: Our body cells have morphologically diverse sac like structures, Lysosomes. Their primary goals is to breakdown or degrade the proteins, lipids, nucleic acids, carbohydrates, food particles and engulfed bacteria and viruses in the presence of some specific hydrolytic enzymes. Mutation in the genes encoding for these lysosomal hydrolytic enzymes or defects in any non- lysosomal activities involved in lysosomal biogenesis or protein maturation causes lysosomal storage diseases. Gaucher disease is one of the lysosomal storage disorders and is an autosomal inherited recessive…
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