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| Tay Sachs Disease |
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| Tay Sachs Disease
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•Low power view of the anterior horn of the spinal cord
of a patient with Tay Sachs disease, stained with luxol-
fast blue-PAS.
•The luxol-blue stains myelin blue and the PAS stains
some lipids red.
•The arrows point to lipid filled anterior horn cell
neurons.
•Tay Sachs disease is due to a lack of hexoseaminidase A.
| | (Description By:Margaret Grunnet, M.D. )
| | (Image Contrib. by:Margaret Grunnet, M.D. UCHC )
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