how to cite this article: ahmadabadi f. niemann –pick c disease: is it a misnomenclature. iran j child neurol. 2015 autumn;9:4(suppl.1): 27. pls see pdf.

nieman-pick disease type c is a rare, autosomal recessive, neurometabolic disorder associated with the accumulation of unesterified cholesterol in lysosomes and late endosomes. because of multiple organ involvement and wide range of clinical manifestations, these patients will demand multiple diagnostic and therapeutic procedures requiring anesthesia. sincepathogenesis of this disease is still ...

Fluorescence microscopic examination of filipin-stained cultured skin fibroblasts derived from two brothers with group D Niemann-Pick disease revealed abnormal storage of low density lipoprotein (LDL)-derived cholesterol. LDL stimulation of intracellular cholesteryl ester synthesis was severely compromised in the Niemann-Pick D fibroblasts, as it also was in fibroblasts obtained from Niemann-Pi...

BACKGROUND Niemann-Pick disease type C is a rare metabolic disease characterized by progressive neurological deterioration with childhood onset, and often results in premature mortality. Niemann-Pick disease type C has an extremely heterogeneous clinical presentation with a wide range of visceral and neurological signs and symptoms that are not specific to the disease, and which progress over v...

Autophagy dysfunction has been implicated in misfolded protein accumulation and cellular toxicity in several diseases. Whether alterations in autophagy also contribute to the pathology of lipid-storage disorders is not clear. Here, we show defective autophagy in Niemann-Pick type C1 (NPC1) disease associated with cholesterol accumulation, where the maturation of autophagosomes is impaired becau...

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