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Fabry disease is an X-linked disorder resulting in reduced activity of the lysosomal enzyme α-galactosidase A [ 1 2 ] . This results in the systemic accumulation of D-galatosyl conjugates, particularly globotriosylceramide (Gb3) [ 3 4 ] . Although the disorder is heterogeneous, patients suffer renal, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular complications [ 4 ] . Enzyme replacement therapy has recently shown to have an effect on resting cerebral blood flow abnormalities and on other organ systems functions [ 5 6 ] . In the cerebrovascular system there is an increased incidence of stroke together with vessel ectasia [ 7 ] . This may be related to the progressive accumulation of storage material in the cerebral vessel or possibly, may be due to an abnormality of vessel function [ 8 9 ] . The cerebrovascular complications are distributed predominantly in the posterior circulation with a progressive increase over time in the posterior distribution of small vessel disease as found on T 2 -weighted images or fluid attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) MR [ 7 10 11 ] . It likely that such high signal lesions on MR images represent ischemic small vessel disease, however, there are no neuropathological-radiological correlative studies confirming this assumption.
Consequently, the current study examined the effect of sex steroids on Stx-1 cytotoxicity on, and Gb3 expression by, HGEN, HGEC and HPT.
Gb3 concentrations were calculated by densitometry (Eagle Eye II, Stratagene, LaJolla, CA) and standardized to total protein.
Antibodies to CMV gB share some homology with rheumatoid factor, thus providing a theoretical relationship between CMV infection and autoimmune disease [ 12 ] . An adenovirus-CMV gB construct vaccine administered to mice induced a statistically significant increase in the production of antibodies to U1-70 kD antibody in both normal and autoimmune-prone mice [ 13 ] . Newkirk et al . recently reported an increased incidence of antibodies to Sm antigen and antibodies to ribonucleoprotein (RNP) among naturally CMV-infected individuals, as well as an increase in antibodies to U1-70 kD [ 14 ] .
A probe set was generated by Affymetrix using the similar sequence information (GB Accession No.M28879) and according to oligonucleotide array, granzyme B was shown to be up-regulated (fold change 21.
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