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Mucolipidoses

"Mucolipidoses" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

A group of inherited metabolic diseases characterized by the accumulation of excessive amounts of acid mucopolysaccharides, sphingolipids, and/or glycolipids in visceral and mesenchymal cells. Abnormal amounts of sphingolipids or glycolipids are present in neural tissue. INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY and skeletal changes, most notably dysostosis multiplex, occur frequently. (From Joynt, Clinical Neurology, 1992, Ch56, pp36-7)


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Mucolipidoses" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Mucolipidoses" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 44 publications over 25 distinct years, with a maximum of 5 publications in 2021
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