Thomas Klein, Julia Grüner, Maximilian Breyer, Jan Schlegel, Nicole Michelle Schottmann, Lukas Hofmann, Kevin Gauss, Rebecca Mease, Christoph Erbacher, Laura Finke, Alexandra Klein, Katharina Klug, Franziska Karl-Schöller, Bettina Vignolo, Sebastian Reinhard, Tamara Schneider, Katharina Günther, Julian Fink, Jan Dudek, Christoph Maack, Eva Klopocki, Jürgen Seibel, Frank Edenhofer, Erhard Wischmeyer, Markus Sauer, Nurcan Üçeyler
Acral burning pain triggered by fever, thermal hyposensitivity and skin denervation are hallmarks of small fibre neuropathy in Fabry disease, a life-threatening X-linked lysosomal storage disorder. Variants in the gene encoding alpha-galactosidase A may lead to impaired enzyme activity with cellular accumulation of globotriaosylceramide. To study the underlying pathomechanism of Fabry-associated small fibre neuropathy, we generated a neuronal in vitro disease model using patient-derived induced pluripotent stem cells from three Fabry patients and one healthy control...
2024: Brain communications