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Unfortunately, glycogen storage disease is a genetic disorder, so it cannot be avoided. It is caused by an enzyme deficiency in the body and it can cause cirrhosis of the liver.
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What organelle does Pompe disease affect in a cell?
It is the only glycogen storage disease with a defect in lysosomal metabolism, and the first glycogen storage disease to be identified, in 1932 by the Dutch pathologist J.C.Pompe.The build-up of glycogen causes progressive muscle weakness throughout the body.
What are glycogen storage diseases?
Glycogen Storage disease is an inhearited disease that is caused by the large amount of build up of a carbohydrate called glycogen in the cells of the body. Unfourtantly when the build up occures then it causes other organs of the body to malfunction such at the liver.
Can you out grow glycogen storage disease?
No a person who is affected by Gsd will never grow out of the disease. It is a chronic illness that is genetic.
What is storage diseases?
Glycogen Storage disease is an inhearited disease that is caused by the large amount of build up of a carbohydrate called glycogen in the cells of the body. Unfourtantly when the build up occures then it causes other organs of the body to malfunction such at the liver.
What prevention methods are there to avoid Fanconi's syndrome?
Fanconi's syndrome caused secondarily by the genetic diseases galactosemia, glycogen storage disease, hereditary fructose intolerance, and tyrosinemia is prevented by appropriate dietary restrictions to treat the genetic disease.
What is the storage form of carbohydrate called?
glycogen
What has the author A N Peeling written?
A N. Peeling has written: 'Investigation of fluorogenic glucoside in diagnosis of glycogen storage disease type 2 (Pompe's disease)'
How you will define glycogen?
Glycogen is the body's storage of energy. It is a starch.
The major storage sites for glycogen in the body are?
In the body the major storage sites for glycogen are the muscles and the liver. Glycogen is found in low concentration areas of the body.
What is the storage of the starch?
glycogen
Why is glycogen a storage of carbohydrate in muscle?
Glycogen is a storage of carbohydrate in the muscles, because that is the way the body is made. To access glycogen, the body needs to get into active mode.
What carbohydrate is used in the liver for energy storage?
glycogen
