Sentences with phrase «causes of amyloidosis»

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Payne keyed in the symptoms, and the computer program suggested a handful of potential conditions, including a rare disease called amyloidosis, in which abnormal proteins build up in the body, interfering with normal organ function and causing nerve damage.

The researchers also examined skin slices from two patients with another form of nerve disease called AL amyloidosis, caused by a bone marrow disorder.

People with the transthyretin amyloidosis have mutations in the DNA of the transthyretin gene, which causes abnormal buildup and deposits of a transport protein called transthyretin in nerve and heart cells.

The nature of those plaques finally came into focus in 1984, when George Glenner, a research scientist at the University of California, San Diego, identified the peptide called amyloid - beta and hypothesized that Alzheimer's was caused by «amyloidosis» of the brain, a process in which insoluble forms of an amyloid protein accumulate.

Cyclic Hematopoiesis with color dilution AP3B1 ELANE mutation causing cycles of low wbc (white blood cell production) in collies predispose these dogs to secondary bacterial infections and amyloidosis, and most die less then one year of age.

Over the years, veterinarians have suggested that antigen / antibody accumulation (immune complexes), amyloidosis, high protein diets or even leptospirosis (specific ref) might be the root cause of kidney decline over time.

Share Pei fever can also lead to Amyloidosis, an enzyme deficiency results in abnormal accumulations of amyloid proteins, causing liver or kidney failure.

The next cause is Amyloidosis, which is a relatively uncommon disorder of protein metabolism in dogs.

We must verify cases of renal amyloidosis or other causes of kidney failure if we are to make headway in correcting this condition through breeding.

While amyloidosis may present itself as a symptom of another medical condition, for those suffering from amyloid disease, the cause will be due to issues within the actual bone marrow whereby abnormal antibodies are produced forming amyloid.