print email comment close UCSF-Stanford Lysosomal Disease Center URL: http://www.medschool.ucsf.edu/Lysosomal/ Description: This site provides general information about the rare lysosomal diseases such as Gaucher disease, Fabry disease, Hurler syndrome, and Niemann-Pick disease. "These inherited diseases are caused by problems in the lysosomes, compartments in the body's cells that contain enzymes (chemicals that break down other substances)." Also features newsletters from the center. From Stanford University and the School of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. Publisher: University of California, San Francisco Dublin Core Material Type: Text Library of Congress Subject Headings: Genetic disorders Lysosomal storage diseases LII Database Information: Record 12224 created by Barbara Bibel on 09/10/2004 Last modification on 09/06/2006 Published: 09/10/2004   California Digital Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/12224