Sentences with phrase «for narcolepsy»

Some breeds that have an elevated risk for narcolepsy with cataplexy include:

In the meantime, knowing the autoimmune trigger could lead to new and more effective treatments for narcolepsy, he says.

And without it, the autoimmune hypothesis for narcolepsy languished — until the swine flu pandemic of 2009.

The next big clue came when Mignot of Stanford University tracked down a gene for narcolepsy in dogs and discovered it caused a mutation in a receptor for hypocretin, a neuropeptide involved in prodding the central nervous system awake and maintaining alertness and good muscle tone.

One founder told CNBC that he uses Provigil, a drug designed for narcolepsy, to stay alert.

The investors are frustrated that shares in Jazz, a $ 9 billion pharmaceutical company known for its narcolepsy drug Xyrem, have remained essentially flat over the past year.

Julie has received tons of press and is the spokesperson for narcolepsy, a neurological auto - immune sleep disorder that affects 200,000 to 250,000 Americans.

Similar mutations, it turned out, appear in both Doberman pinschers and Labrador retrievers bred for narcolepsy.

Her intuition may be correct and could have a physiological explanation, says Emmanuel Mignot, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator and director of the Center for Narcolepsy at Stanford University.

«Mignot told Science that while attempting to develop a diagnostic test for narcolepsy based on the assay, «my lab could not make the ELISpot test work.»»

These studies have been questioned as the genetic variant required for narcolepsy protects against autoimmune type 1 diabetes.

Exploiting methods that he developed in his hunt for the gene responsible for narcolepsy, Mignot is now in hot pursuit of a KLS gene.

That may be why immunotherapy for narcolepsy has so far yielded lackluster results.

Researchers are narrowing in on a compelling explanation for narcolepsy: the body at war with itself.

And finding an immunological marker for narcolepsy is important for reasons beyond just proving that it's an autoimmune disease.

Modafinil, a drug prescribed for narcolepsy and attention - deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)-- and used illicitly by an increasing number of people to enhance cognitive performance — could be addictive, according to a small study of 10 people who underwent high - tech brain scans.

In 2013, before the «Obamacare» exchanges launched, he paid $ 483 a month in premiums, plus $ 1,203 a month for narcolepsy medication and $ 200 for cholesterol medicine until he reached a $ 5,000 deductible.

In December, Outi Vaarala of the University of Helsinki and her colleagues had reported that Pandemrix contained a much higher level of nucleoprotein than a GSK vaccine called Arepanrix, which was associated with a much smaller risk for narcolepsy.

It sounds like Bandit may have narcolepsy; it can occur when a dog gets over excited they just collapse to the floor and then get up like nothing happened; it can be misdiagnosed as a seizure, but seizures are usually violent episodes with shaking, incontinence etc... There is no treatment for narcolepsy, but it is harmless and doesn't progress in severity.

A review of the autoimmune hypothesis for narcolepsy, and the role that H1N1 vaccination and live - virus infection may have played.

This idea inspired Eric Konofal at Robert - Debré Hospital in Paris to try using a drug for narcolepsy and excessive daytime sleepiness to treat ADHD.