Sentences with phrase «human narcolepsy»

The hypocretin receptor 2 gene could be the single most important gene in human narcolepsy, says Michael Aldrich, a neurologist and director of the University of Michigan's Sleep Disorders Center.

Not exact matches

Although narcolepsy appears to be genetically based in humans, simply having the defective gene doesn't mean a person will have the disorder.

Although humans with narcolepsy do not possess the same genetic mutation, this finding still proved instrumental in unraveling the disease's fundamental cause.

That knowledge, coupled with evidence that narcolepsy in humans might be an autoimmune disorder, has led many researchers to suspect that sufferers have immune systems that are genetically predisposed to attack and destroy hypocretin - producing cells.

In the new work, the researchers added serum from Finnish narcolepsy patients who had received Pandemrix to cells that were engineered to display human hypo cretin receptor 2 on their surface.

In the early 1980s, scientists at the University of Tokyo found that all of their narcolepsy patients had the same form of the human leukocyte antigen, or HLA.

Amphetamines are also present in some medications used for weight loss and narcolepsy in humans.