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Without this enzyme, called beta glucuronidase, substances called glycoaminoglycans accumulate in the brain and other tissues, where they cause neural damage. Accumulation of this waste material leads to severe brain deterioration, retardation and ultimately death...
Researchers therefore decided to inject neural progenitor cells into the brain ventricles, chambers filled with cerebrospinal fluid surrounding the brain...
...time the newborn mice reached maturity, the neural progenitor cells had secreted the missing enzyme, engrafted throughout the brains and appeared as normal constituents of the central nervous system...
...researchers' work suggests that neural progenitor cells could eventually be used to treat Sly Disease in humans...
Potentially, the neural progenitor strategy could be used to treat this wider group of genetic ailments, which include Tay-Sachs, Gaucher's disease, galactosemia and dozens of other maladies that affect millions of people worldwide...