Frontiers in Neuroscience (Sep 2022)

A neglected neurodegenerative disease: Adult-onset globoid cell leukodystrophy

  • Guode Wu,
  • Zhenhua Li,
  • Jing Li,
  • Xin Li,
  • Manxia Wang,
  • Jing Zhang,
  • Guangyao Liu,
  • Pengfei Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2022.998275
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 16

Abstract

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Globoid cell leukodystrophy (GLD), or Krabbe disease (KD) is a rare neurodegenerative disease, and adult-onset GLD is more even neglected by clinicians. This review provides detailed discussions of the serum enzymes, genes, clinical manifestations, neuroimaging features, and therapies of GLD, with particular emphasis on the characteristics of adult-onset GLD, in an attempt to provide clinicians with in-depth insights into this disease.

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