Sentences with phrase «degenerative muscular disease»

Stewart plays Georgia, a high school student with a degenerative muscular disease.

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The saga of Sarepta Therapeutics» rare disease drug Exondys 51, the first - ever treatment for the degenerative movement disorder Duchenne muscular dystrophy, has taken yet another turn.

First, when muscle is damaged by injury or degenerative disease such as muscular dystrophy, muscle stem cells — or satellite cells — need to differentiate into mature muscle cells to repair injured muscles.

Its impairment is closely associated with the process of aging, the progress of neuro - degenerative and neuro - muscular diseases and cell death.

Importantly, more that 400 different mutations in the lamin A gene have been reported, which are associated with a wide range of human degenerative diseases including muscular dystrophy, lipodystrophies and neuropathies.

[5] Though the free radical theory of aging remains controversial, oxidative stress contributes to degenerative conditions such as arthritis, heart disease, hypertension, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, muscular dystrophy, and more.

Hereditary spinal muscular atrophy: an autosomal dominant degenerative disease of motor neurons characterized by weakness and muscle atrophy with a typical gait, and progressing to dangling of the head and a drooping, paralyzed tail.

See GENETICS: Inherited Neurological Disorders for the following disorders: Ataxia (Cerebella Abiotrophy) Canine Neuronal Lipofuscinosis (CCL & NCL) Cerebellar Hypoplasia Congenital Myasthenia Gravis Deafness Degenerative Myelopathy (DM) Epilepsy - Hydrocephalus - Intervertebral Disk Disease Myasthenia Gravis Myopathy (X-Linked Muscular Dystrophy) Spina Bifida

Muscular Dystrophy is a terrible degenerative disease that affects over 70,000 people in the UK.