What Is Nieman-Pick Disease?
Maria- Great post. As you state, temperature plays an incredible role in the activity of enzymes in our body. I remember from my biology class last fall; enzymes are imperative in the overall process of functionality in the human body, they are in charge of regulation, and they speed up the biochemical reactions of the body. The human body is incredibly complex. As you mentioned before, Nieman-Pick Disease is an enzyme deficiency disease, and I wanted to elaborate a little more on enzyme deficiency diseases. Have you ever heard of lysosomal storage disease? Lysosomal storage diseases results of enzyme deficiencies. It is an inherited metabolic disease characterized by an abnormal build-up of countless toxic materials in the body's cells (Clarke,