News tagged with muscular atrophy
Communication breakdown: Early defects in sensory synapses in motor neuron disease
New research using a mouse model of the motor neuron disease spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) reveals an abnormality in the way that sensory information is relayed to motor neurons in the spinal cord. Importantly, this disruption ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Feb 09, 2011 |
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Identifying molecular guardian of cell's RNA
When most genes are transcribed, the nascent RNAs they produce are not quite ready to be translated into proteins - they have to be processed first. One of those processes is called splicing, a mechanism by ...
Oct 25, 2010 |
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Researchers confirm prenatal heart defects in spinal muscular atrophy cases
University of Missouri researchers believe they have found a critical piece of the puzzle for the treatment of Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) - the leading genetic cause of infantile death in the world. Nearly one in 6,000 ...
Sep 28, 2010 |
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Study links normal function of protein, not its build up inside cells, to death of neurons
A study led by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital investigators links the muscle weakness and other symptoms of a rare neurodegenerative disease to a misstep in functioning of a normal protein, rather than its build-up ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Sep 22, 2010 |
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Spinal muscular atrophy may also affect the heart
Along with skeletal muscles, it may be important to monitor heart function in patients with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). These are the findings from a study conducted by Nationwide Children's Hospital and published online ...
Aug 11, 2010 |
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Researchers demonstrate efficacy of antisense therapy for spinal muscular atrophy
The devastating, currently incurable motor-neuron disease spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) might soon be treated with tiny, chemically modified pieces of RNA called antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs).
Jul 12, 2010 |
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Researchers fight genetic killer of infants and toddlers
Researchers at the University of Utah are making strides in understanding and combating a motor neuron disease known as Spinal Muscular Atrophy. The spinal muscular atrophies are a group of inherited diseases that cause progressive ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jun 17, 2010 |
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New therapy offers hope to spinal muscular atrophy patients
Children who suffer from the devastating disease Spinal Muscular Atrophy are set to benefit from a new breakthrough in therapy developments by researchers at the University of Sheffield.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jun 09, 2010 |
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Newborn and carrier screening for spinal muscular atrophy now possible, claim scientists
Scientists in Ohio studying Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) have concluded that the technology now exists to carry out nationwide screening of newborn children and pregnant mothers. The study, published in the American Journal of ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
May 07, 2010 |
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Study opens new avenue for developing treatments for genetic muscle-wasting disease
Scientists from the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute (OHRI) and the University of Ottawa have identified a promising new approach for developing drugs to treat Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), the leading inherited cause ...
Mar 15, 2010 |
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WHO: over 85M African kids get polio vaccination
(AP) -- The World Health Organization says more than 85 million children under 5 in west and central Africa will be vaccinated against polio.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Mar 05, 2010 |
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Study: Gene therapy reverses effects of lethal childhood muscle disorder in mice
Reversing a protein deficiency through gene therapy can correct motor function, restore nerve signals and improve survival in mice that serve as a model for the lethal childhood disorder spinal muscular atrophy, new research ...
Feb 28, 2010 |
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Study finds screening for spinal muscular atrophy not cost effective
In a study to be presented today at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine's (SMFM) annual meeting, The Pregnancy Meeting, in Chicago, researchers will unveil findings that show that it is not cost effective to screen for ...
Feb 05, 2010 |
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Newly Discovered Gene Mutation Linked to Nerve Diseases
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine have identified mutations in the gene for TRPV4 that cause two related degenerative motor nerve disorders, scapuloperoneal spinal muscular ...
Dec 28, 2009 |
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Researchers identify drug candidate for treating spinal muscular atrophy
A chemical cousin of the common antibiotic tetracycline might be useful in treating spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), a currently incurable disease that is the leading genetic cause of death in infants. This is the finding of ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Nov 04, 2009 |
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