Sentences with phrase «dystrophy lack»

In worms, muscles normally harbor a newly found acetylcholine transporter to help them work, like those shown here, but those with a disease resembling Duchenne muscular dystrophy lack the molecule.

Children with muscular dystrophy lack the gene required to regulate dystrophin, a protein for muscle growth and stability.

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Dear Harold, you have given me a headache, you also confused me from the beginning when you used the word dystrophy which is a medical term for a wasting away of part of the body through lack of nourishment, it does not lead to chaos but death.

Individuals who suffer from muscular dystrophy often lack essential components in this cell scaffold.

«Gene mutations behind lack of a nose identified: Alterations in same gene previously associated with rare form of muscular dystrophy.»

This balance can be disrupted in diseases such as Duchenne muscular dystrophy, which is caused by the lack of a muscle - specific protein, dystrophin.

Their study published online ahead of print in PNAS Early Edition suggests a new therapeutic strategy for patients with Duchene muscular dystrophy, a progressive neuromuscular condition, caused by a lack of dystrophin, that usually leaves patients unable to walk on their own by age 10 - 15.

Other genetic diseases include Tay - Sachs disease (damage to the gene for the enzyme hexosaminidase A leads to an accumulation of a chemical in the brain that destroys it), sickle cell anemia (improper coding of the gene that produces hemoglobin), hemophilia (lack of a gene for a blood - clotting factor) and muscular dystrophy (caused by a defective gene on the X chromosome).

Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) is coaused by a lack of dystrophin which is expressed in muscle fibers where it plays a role in ensuring structural integrity.

Given the lack of definitive AD biomarkers in humans, transgenic animal models of the amyloid pathology continue to be valuable tools to examine molecular changes preceding the deposition of amyloid plaques and associated pathology (i.e. late inflammation, neuritic dystrophy, etc.).

Yes, he wants to put a face on the disease for researchers who have never met a child with Pompe, a type of muscular dystrophy in which glycogen build - up causes extensive muscular weakness, but that could cause, as Dr. Kent Webber (Jared Harris), a biotech VP with whom Crowley inevitably clashes heads, puts it, a lack of objectivity, maybe even causing scientists to cut corners.