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	Sandhoff disease - Genetics Home Reference (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Sandhoff disease is a rare inherited disorder that causes progressive destruction of nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord (the central nervous system).
		Mutations in the HEXB gene cause Sandhoff disease.
		Because Sandhoff disease impairs the function of lysosomal enzymes and involves the buildup of GM2 ganglioside, this condition is sometimes referred to as a lysosomal storage disorder or a GM2-gangliosidosis.
	ghr.nlm.nih.gov /condition=sandhoffdisease (793 words)

	Sandhoff Disease
		Sandhoff, like its near twin Tay-Sachs, is a progressive neurological autosomal recessive genetic disorder that appears in three forms: Classic Infantile, Juvenile and Late Onset or Chronic Sandhoff.
		Because the disease affects brain cells that are protected by the blood-brain barrier, enzymes such as Hex-A and Hex B are blocked from entering the brain by the blood.
		In fact, given the higher incidence of Sandhoff in non-Jews and the clinical similarity of the two diseases, it is probable that some of the non-Jewish children diagnosed before the availability of the laboratory tests actually had Sandhoff disease.
	www.ntsad.org /S02/S02sandhoff.htm (1184 words)

	Sandhoff Disease Information Page: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
		Sandhoff disease is a rare, genetic, lipid storage disorder resulting in the progressive deterioration of the central nervous system.
		Sandhoff disease is a severe form of Tay-Sachs disease--which is prevalent primarily in people of Eastern European and Ashkenazi Jewish descent--but it is not limited to any ethnic group.
		The prognosis for individuals with Sandhoff disease is poor.
	www.ninds.nih.gov /disorders/sandhoff/sandhoff.htm (351 words)

	Sandhoff Disease - WrongDiagnosis.com
		Although Sandhoff disease is a severe form of Tay-Sachs disease—which is prevalent primarily in people of European Jewish descent—it is not limited to any ethnic group.
		Sandhoff Disease is listed as a "rare disease" by the Office of Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
		Sandhoff disease is a rare inherited disorder that causes progressive destruction of nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord.
	www.wrongdiagnosis.com /s/sandhoff_disease/intro.htm (574 words)

	SandhoffDisease
		Sandhoff Disease is much less common then Tay Sachs, but it is so similiar that in the way it affects children that most cases cannot be determined without biochemical lab testing.
		Sandhoff Disease is inherited as an autosomal recessive disorder, but unlike Tay Sachs, it occurs more often in non jewish families.
		As a result chidren with Sandhoff Disease have almost no hexosaminidase unlike children with Tay Sachs have Hex-B activity, but no Hex-A. Because of the nearly total absence of hexosaminidase activity in affected individuals, laboratory diagnosis of affected children as well as prenantal diagnosis is accurate and reliable.
	www.mulliganangels.com /SandhoffDisease.html (764 words)

	Sandhoff Disease
		Sandhoff Disease is inherited as an autosomal recessive genetic trait.
		Batten Disease is the juvenile form of a group of inherited progressive neurologic diseases characterized by the abnormal accumulation of pigmented fatty substances in the brain and other organs of the body (neuronal ceriod lupofuscinoses).
		Leigh's Disease is a rare inherited metabolic disorder characterized by damage to areas of the brain, spinal cord, and optic nerve as a result of elevated levels of lactic acid, pyruvate, and alanine in the blood.
	hw.healthdialog.com /kbase/nord/nord94.htm (1403 words)

	Sandhoff disease: risk factors, symptoms, diagnosis and treatment. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Sandhoff disease: A genetic disorder with symptoms that are very similar to those of Tay-Sachs disease (TSD) and that is characterized by accumulation of fatty material called GM2 ganglioside in the nerve cells of the brain.
		All known forms of TSD are inherited in autosomal recessive manner and are due to mutation of the gene for the alpha subunit of hex-A that is on chromosome 15q23-15q24.
		The disease is named for the English physician Waren Tay and New York neurologist Bernard (Barney) Sachs who made key early contributions to the rocognition of this disease.
	www.overcome-diabetes.com /sandhoff-disease.htm (717 words)

	Indian Pediatrics - Editorial
		Juvenile Sandhoff’s disease is a rare disease causing progressive neurologic dys-function beginning in late childhood.
		The authors suggested that these patients with Juvenile Sandhoff disease have a benign protracted illness, while the infantile form of Sandhoff disease is characterized by seizures, retinal degeneration and rapid deterioration.
		The course of the disease is that of relentless and ultimately fatal progression of neurologic disease.
	www.indianpediatrics.net /jan2001/jan-89-92.htm (1309 words)

	Sandhoff Disease
		Sandhoff disease (SD) is an inherited (genetic), incurable disease.
		Sandhoff disease is very similar to Tay-Sachs disease, but occurs more commonly in the non-Jewish community.
		Sandhoff disease has a high incidence in the Creole population of the northern part of Argentina and an increased incidence in the Metis Indians in Canada and in the Lebanese community.
	www.palmslab.com.au /Education/Genetics/sandhoff.shtml (853 words)

	Classic Infantile Sandhoff Disease (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Classic Infantile Sandhoff is the most common form of this rare disease and is characterized by very little to no Hexosaminidase-A (Hex-A) and Hexosaminidase-B(Hex-B) enzyme activity.
		In Classic Infantile Sandhoff, motor weakness begins in the first 6 months of life and is progressive.
		Like Tay-Sachs, children with Sandhoff experience the same exaggerated startle reaction to sound; early blindness, progressive mental and motor deterioration, doll-like face, cherry-red spot and enlargement of the head.
	www.ntsad.org /S02/S02infant_sandhoff.htm (179 words)

	Microglial activation precedes acute neurodegeneration in Sandhoff disease and is suppressed by bone marrow ...
		Sandhoff disease is a lysosomal storage disorder characterized by the absence of
		Sandhoff disease model mice were developed by disruption of the Hexb gene as described (14).
		Genes up-regulated in the spinal cord of Sandhoff disease mice
	www.pnas.org /cgi/content/full/97/20/10954 (4324 words)

	Sandhoff Disease
		It is caused by a deficiency of the enzyme hexosaminidase which results in the accumulation of certain fats (lipids) in the brain and other organs of the body.
		Although Sandhoff disease is a severe form of Tay-Sachs disease--which is prevalent only in people of European Jewish descent--it is not limited to any ethnic group.
		Symptoms may include motor weakness, startle reaction to sound, early blindness, progressive mental and motor deterioration, frequent respiratory infections, macrocephaly (an abnormally enlarged head), doll-like facial appearance, cherry-red spots, seizures, and myoclonus (shock-like contractions of a muscle).
	healthlink.mcw.edu /article/921961289.html (198 words)

	txt001fpo: Substrate deprivation - A new therapeutic approach for the glycosphingolipid lysosomal storage diseases (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Using our knowledge of human disease states, it can be inferred that GSLs are required for at least one stage of human embryogenesis, because no disease states have been shown to result from defects in the genes of the GSL biosynthetic pathway (Ref. 6).
		In the case of the GSL lysosomal storage diseases, there is a correlation between the age of onset of disease and the level of residual enzyme activity.
		Although gene therapy is another promising approach for the potential treatment of diseases that are caused by a single-gene defect, such as the GSL lysosomal storage diseases, it is still at an experimental stage (Ref. 18).
	www-ermm.cbcu.cam.ac.uk /00001484h.htm (6529 words)

	Enhanced survival in Sandhoff disease mice receiving a combination of substrate deprivation therapy and bone marrow ...
		Sandhoff disease is a lysosomal storage disorder characterized by G
		Sandhoff mice were bone marrow transplanted at 10 to 16 days of age.
		The onset of symptoms and the rates of disease progression were delayed significantly in SH relative to the monotherapy groups.
	www.bloodjournal.org /cgi/content/full/97/1/327 (1996 words)

	eMedicine - GM2 Gangliosidoses : Article by Margot Kaelbling, PhD, FACMG (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Sandhoff disease: Although the disease is panethnic, increased prevalences were reported in Creoles of northern Argentina, Metis Indians of northern Saskatchewan, individuals of Lebanese heritage, and Hispanic persons of Mexican or Central American heritage.
		The disease and its variants are caused by the absence of or deficiency in the alpha subunit of Hex A. The severity of the disease correlates inversely with the level of Hex A activity.
		Conzelmann E, Sandhoff K: AB variant of infantile GM2 gangliosidosis: deficiency of a factor necessary for stimulation of hexosaminidase A-catalyzed degradation of ganglioside GM2 and glycolipid GA2.
	www.emedicine.com /ped/topic3016.htm (5385 words)

	Report on the Rare Diseases and Conditions Research Activities of the NIH 1999 - National Institute of Diabetes and ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		As more is learned about disease mechanisms, through basic and clinical research, diseases that were once thought to be single entities have been demonstrated to be a collection of diseases with heterogeneous etiologies.
		Studies of the disease necessitate the investigation of the molecular and cellular pathology in both fetal and adult organs; animal models allow the sequence of molecular events that precede cyst formation to be studied in detail.
		This is the first reported direct demonstration of a human disease resulting from a mutation in a ribosomal protein—although this had already been speculated on the basis of abnormal invertebrate development traced to mutations in homologous ribosomal protein genes.
	rarediseases.info.nih.gov /html/reports/fy1999/niddk.html (3177 words)

	Sandhoff Disease
		The disease itself is devastating, and not curable at this time.
		Most children that suffer from Sandhoff disease have pneumonia over and over, for some this turns to be the cause of them passing.
		Others come to a point that they can no longer digest their tube feedings, they vomit everything back up and loose so much weight, there bodies are trying to naturally shut down and feedings should not be forced when this time comes.
	www.webspawner.com /users/sandhoffoptions (558 words)

	Deletion of macrophage-inflammatory protein 1{alpha} retards neurodegeneration in Sandhoff disease mice -- Wu and Proia ...
		Sandhoff disease is a prototypical lysosomal storage disorder
		Sandhoff disease mice is compounded by the infiltration of cells
		Sandhoff disease is lysosomal storage disorder caused by a deficiency
	www.pnas.org /cgi/content/full/101/22/8425 (3089 words)

	Sandhoff disease - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		As the disease progresses, infants develop seizures, vision and hearing loss, mental retardation, and paralysis.
		Sandhoff disease is inherited in an autosomal recessive fashion.
		Progressive damage caused by the buildup of GM2 ganglioside leads to the destruction of nerve cells, which causes the signs and symptoms of Sandhoff disease.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sandhoff_disease (441 words)

	Impaired Neurite Outgrowth in the Retina of a Murine Model of Sandhoff Disease -- Sango et al. 46 (9): 3420 -- ...
		disease; the HEXB gene, causing Sandhoff disease; and the GM2A
		Microglial activation precedes acute neurodegeneration in Sandhoff disease and is suppressed by bone marrow transplantation.
		Phospholipid synthesis is decreased in neuronal tissue in a mouse model of Sandhoff disease.
	www.iovs.org /cgi/content/full/46/9/3420 (3512 words)

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		Disease is, now we can talk about what it is about from a
		disease at this point other then just general tiredness and
		disease is setting in and the break down of the brain function
	www.sandhoff.org /info2.html (621 words)

	Konrad Sandhoff (www.whonamedit.com)
		Konrad Sandhoff was the son of a chemist with an additional degree in agriculture.
		Sandhoff has received several scientific awards, among them the Carl-Duisberg Medal from the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (1976), the Heinrich-Wieland-Preis (1979), and the Richard-Kuhn-Medal from the der Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (1992).
		In 1998, Sandhoff, then at the Kekulé-Institut für Organische Chemie und Biochemie der Universität Bonn, and Professor Wilhelm Stoffel (born 1928) at the Institut für Biochemie, Universität zu Köln, received the K.J. Zülch-Preis of Gertrud Reemtsma from the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft.
	www.whonamedit.com /doctor.cfm/3044.html (2614 words)

	Sandhoff disease -
		Neurodegenerative disease is a condition which affects the brain function.
		A disease is any abnormal condition of the body or mind that causes discomfort, dysfunction, or distress to the person affected or those in contact with the person.
		The subject of systematic classification of diseases is referred to as nosology.
	www.medicalgeo.com /Med-Diseases-R---Se/Sandhoff-disease.html (111 words)

	HEXB - Genetics Home Reference
		Sandhoff disease - caused by mutations in the HEXB gene
		Most of the known mutations in the HEXB gene cause the severe form of Sandhoff disease, which becomes apparent in infancy.
		Other mutations that reduce but do not eliminate the activity of the enzymes are responsible for the less severe forms of Sandhoff disease, which appear later in life.
	ghr.nlm.nih.gov /gene=hexb (625 words)

	Juvenile Sandhoff disease: a Japanese patient carrying a mutation identical to that found earlier in a Canadian patient. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Juvenile Sandhoff disease: a Japanese patient carrying a mutation identical to that found earlier in a Canadian patient.
		A 35-year-old Japanese man with juvenile Sandhoff disease is described.
		This mutation is identical to that originally found in a Canadian patient with juvenile Sandhoff disease.
	www.arclab.org /medlineupdates/abstract_2147031.html (226 words)

	Sandhoff disease
		Sandhoff disease is known to occur in the Christian Maronite community in Cyprus with clinical phenotype typical of the classical infantile form, with an early onset and rapid neurological deterioration leading to death before the age of five.
		Mutations in the gene coding for the β-hexosaminidase β subunit caused the disease.
		Hara Y, Ioannou P, Drousiotou A, Stylianidou G, Anastasiadou V, Suzuki K, Mutation analysis of a Sandhoff patient in the Maronite community in Cyprus.
	www.ucy.ac.cy /~deltas/cyprusgmd/diseases/Sandhoff.htm (137 words)

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		So you have a diagnosis of Sandhoff Disease, now what you might be thinking.
		Well this website is dedicated to information, guidance, support, research and honoring our children affected by this dreaded disease.
		We have a parental support system as well and are here for any families with children diagnosed with Sandhoff Disease, please email us at any time.
	www.sandhoff.org (129 words)

	Hide & Seek Foundation :: Lysosomal Disease
		Today, over 50 different genetic diseases are recognized which specifically involve defects in lysosomal function.
		Some, like Tay-Sachs, are well known to many in our society, but others, like ML IV or AGU, are known by only a handful of scientists, clinicians, and families.
		Yet all of these diseases bear in common a disturbance in the functioning of the recycling center of cells known as the lysosome.
	www.hideandseek.org /diseases.html (111 words)

	Sandhoff-Jatzkewitz disease (www.whonamedit.com)
		A disease clinically similar to Tay-Sachs disease but far more rare, and without predilection for any ethnic or racial group.
		In Sandhoff's disease two essential enzymes (hexosaminidase A and B) for metabolising ganglioside are absent (in Tay-Sachs disease only one enzyme, hexosaminidase A, is absent).
		Deficient hexosaminidase activity in an exceptional case of Tay-Sachs disease with additional storage of kidney globoside in visceral organs.
	www.whonamedit.com /synd.cfm/3695.html (376 words)

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