News tagged with muscular disease
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 |
not rated yet |
0
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 |
5 / 5 (3) |
0
|
Scientists pinpoint earliest steps of common form of muscular dystrophy
Nearly two decades after they identified the specific genetic flaw that causes a common type of muscular dystrophy, scientists believe they have figured out how that flaw brings about the disease. The finding by an international ...
Aug 19, 2010 |
not rated yet |
0
|
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 |
not rated yet |
0
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 |
3.7 / 5 (3) |
0
Caught on tape: Muscle stem cells captured on video
When muscle tissue experiences trauma or disease, such as muscular dystrophy, stem cells in the muscle known as "satellite cells" respond to repair and regenerate the muscle. These cells are particularly important in neuromuscular ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
May 06, 2010 |
5 / 5 (1) |
0
|
MU researcher developing test for swallowing disorder treatments
Muscle degeneration and confinement to a wheelchair are the hallmarks of Lou Gehrig's disease, Parkinson's, muscular dystrophy and other neurodegenerative diseases. One of the silent, and most serious, symptoms of these diseases ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Apr 28, 2010 |
5 / 5 (1) |
0
Research points to potential treatment for kidney disease
Research performed at UC Santa Barbara points to the drug rapamycin as a potential treatment for kidney disease. The study builds on past research and shows that studies performed on mice are more likely to ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jan 25, 2010 |
not rated yet |
0
Investigators identify gene mutations in patients with Becker muscular dystrophy
Investigators in The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital have identified a link between specific modifications of the dystrophin gene and the age of cardiac disease onset in patients with Becker muscular ...
Jan 13, 2010 |
not rated yet |
0
Rare genetic disease successfully reversed using stem cell transplantation
A recent study by Scripps Research Institute scientists offers good news for families of children afflicted with the rare genetic disorder, cystinosis. In research that holds out hope for one day developing a potential therapy ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Sep 17, 2009 |
5 / 5 (1) |
0
Mighty mice: Treatment targeted to muscle improves motor neuron disease
New research with transgenic mice reveals that a therapy directed at the muscle significantly improves disease symptoms of a genetic disorder characterized by destruction of the neurons that control movement. The study, published ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Aug 12, 2009 |
not rated yet |
0
Genetic source of muscular dystrophy neutralized
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center have found a way to block the genetic flaw at the heart of a common form of muscular dystrophy. The results of the study, which were ...
Jul 16, 2009 |
5 / 5 (4) |
0
Muscular dystrophy diagnosis delayed almost 2.5 years in boys
Boys show signs of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) for 2 ½ years before they obtain a diagnosis and disease-specific treatment, about the same length of delay children have endured for the past 20 years despite advances ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
May 11, 2009 |
not rated yet |
0
Researchers identify gene associated with muscular dystrophy-related vision problems
Skeletal muscle disease and vision deficits might seem unrelated, but a frog model of muscular dystrophy shows it is not such a leap.
Apr 21, 2009 |
not rated yet |
0
Another reason to get your hands dirty
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American College of Sports Medicine recommends at least 30 minutes of moderate-intensity physical activity on most days of the week in order to maintain and improve optimal ...
Dec 29, 2008 |
3.5 / 5 (2) |
0
