Biomaterial Database

Tay-Sachs and related lipid storage diseases: family treatment. 1983

G Schneiderman, and J A Lowden, and Q Rae-Grant

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D007223	Infant	A child between 1 and 23 months of age.	Infants
D008052	Lipid Metabolism, Inborn Errors	Errors in the metabolism of LIPIDS resulting from inborn genetic MUTATIONS that are heritable.	Lipid Metabolism, Inborn Error
D008297	Male		Males
D005190	Family	A social group consisting of parents or parent substitutes and children.	Family Life Cycles,Family Members,Family Life Cycle,Family Research,Filiation,Kinship Networks,Relatives,Families,Family Member,Kinship Network,Life Cycle, Family,Life Cycles, Family,Network, Kinship,Networks, Kinship,Research, Family
D005196	Family Therapy	A form of group psychotherapy. It involves treatment of more than one member of the family simultaneously in the same session.	Therapy, Family,Family Therapies,Therapies, Family
D005260	Female		Females
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000293	Adolescent	A person 13 to 18 years of age.	Adolescence,Youth,Adolescents,Adolescents, Female,Adolescents, Male,Teenagers,Teens,Adolescent, Female,Adolescent, Male,Female Adolescent,Female Adolescents,Male Adolescent,Male Adolescents,Teen,Teenager,Youths
D012944	Social Support	Support systems that provide assistance and encouragement to individuals with physical or emotional disabilities in order that they may better cope. Informal social support is usually provided by friends, relatives, or peers, while formal assistance such as COMMUNITY SUPPORT is provided by churches, groups, etc.	Perceived Social Support,Social Care,Online Social Support,Care, Social,Online Social Supports,Perceived Social Supports,Social Support, Online,Social Support, Perceived,Social Supports, Online,Social Supports, Perceived,Support, Online Social,Support, Perceived Social,Support, Social,Supports, Perceived Social
D013661	Tay-Sachs Disease	An autosomal recessive neurodegenerative disorder characterized by the onset in infancy of an exaggerated startle response, followed by paralysis, dementia, and blindness. It is caused by mutation in the alpha subunit of the HEXOSAMINIDASE A resulting in lipid-laden ganglion cells. It is also known as the B variant (with increased HEXOSAMINIDASE B but absence of hexosaminidase A) and is strongly associated with Ashkenazic Jewish ancestry.	G(M2) Gangliosidosis, Type I,Gangliosidosis G(M2), Type I,Gangliosidosis GM2, B Variant,Hexosaminidase A Deficiency Disease,Tay-Sachs Disease, B Variant,Amaurotic Familial Idiocy,B Variant GM2 Gangliosidosis,B Variant GM2-Gangliosidosis,Deficiency Disease Hexosaminidase A,Familial Amaurotic Idiocy,GM2 Gangliosidosis, B Variant,GM2 Gangliosidosis, Type 1,GM2 Gangliosidosis, Type I,GM2-Gangliosidosis, Type I,Gangliosidosis GM2 , Type 1,Gangliosidosis GM2, Type I,HexA Deficiency,Hexosaminidase A Deficiency,Hexosaminidase alpha-Subunit Deficiency (Variant B),Sphingolipidosis, Tay-Sachs,Amaurotic Idiocy, Familial,B Variant GM2-Gangliosidoses,Deficiency, Hexosaminidase A,Deficiency, Hexosaminidase alpha-Subunit (Variant B),GM2-Gangliosidosis, B Variant,Hexosaminidase alpha Subunit Deficiency (Variant B),Sphingolipidosis, Tay Sachs,Tay Sachs Disease,Tay Sachs Disease, B Variant,Tay-Sachs Sphingolipidosis,Type I GM2-Gangliosidosis