Sentences with phrase «inherited form»

Owners should therefore be vigilant, especially with older dogs and with breeds that have a history of inherited forms of cancer.

Genetic studies of a family with a rare inherited form of leukemia have led researchers to the genetic mutations responsible for this often fatal cancer.

Known genetic mutations account for approximately 40 per cent of all occurrences of inherited forms of melanoma.

ALS can be caused by a mutation in a protein called SOD1, and the antisense drug effectively silences the gene that codes for this mutant protein — found in the cells of patients with inherited forms of ALS.

In a closing set of experiments, the researchers examined neurons obtained from mice with the most common inherited form of ALS, one caused by mutations in a gene called SOD1.

Molecular geneticist Lisa Baumbach of the University of Miami says the technique should be useful in screening for inherited forms of breast cancer, for which researchers must use many probes to distinguish among multiple mutations in a gene.

«Scientists edit gene mutations in inherited form of anemia.»

It has used broad gene patents to operate a monopoly over testing for the two BRCA genes, which when mutated can cause inherited forms of breast cancer.

In the NC State study, Mowat and her team will recruit and compare dogs with SARDS to dogs with two similar diseases — progressive retinal atrophy, which is a slowly developing inherited form of blindness, and the endocrine disease Cushing's disease or pituitary - dependent hyperadrenocorticism, whose sufferers do not routinely experience visual dysfunction.

Such a method can easily be seen in the metaphysical notion of prehension in which occasions of experience become by inheriting the forms of antecedent occasions, which in turn become the forms or data for future prehensions.

Other epilepsy researchers, such as Wayne Frankel, a molecular geneticist at The Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine, say these findings should be helpful because potassium channel defects probably play a role in other inherited forms of epilepsy.

Still the study is «an important first step to show that manipulating AMPK - nNOS signaling at least has the potential to help muscle function in muscular dystrophy,» says Michele whose lab at the University of Michigan Cardiovascular Research Center focuses on inherited forms of skeletal and cardiac diseases.

Alaskan Malamutes, Siberian Huskies, Samoyeds, Bichon Frise, and more than 60 other purebred dogs suffer from inherited forms of cataracts, while progressive retinal atrophy, a common cause of blindness in purebreds, is particularly a problem in Old English Sheepdogs and Papillons.

The customs of any society are thus a shared and likewise inherited form of social order as is the case with any other form of order in any other Society, notwithstanding the peculiarities of human social experience.

The Christians simply inherited this form of their future hope from their Jewish heritage, and reflected some of its diversity.

A research team led by Prof. Koji Yamanaka (Nagoya University) found that collapse of the MAM is a common pathological hallmark to two distinct inherited forms of ALS: SOD1 - and SIGMAR1 - linked ALS.

Several of these changes increase β amyloid formation and cause a devastating inherited form of Alzheimer's that afflicts people in their 30s and 40s — much earlier than the far more common «late - onset» form of Alzheimer's that typically strikes people their 70s and 80s.

deCODE BreastCancer ™ may also be used to modulate the risk profile of the early onset inherited forms of breast cancer in women who have tested positive for risk variants in the BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes.

These are distinct from the rare and essentially purely inherited forms of the disease due to mutations in the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes, which cause between 1 and 3 percent of breast cancers.

«Many more tests need to be done, but for people with the rare inherited forms where Alzheimer's disease can be predicted long in advance, this could be a very interesting drug indeed.»

Inherited form seen in Dachshunds; secondary form caused by friction, hormonal abnormalities, or hypersensitivities

Muscular dystrophy: a congenital and often inherited form of generalized muscle dysfunction which causes signs such as poor growth, weakness, abnormal gait, dificulty eating and swallowing, and muscle atrophy.

Golden Retrievers inherit a form of shaking puppy syndrome that involves the peripheral nervous system, rather than the central nervous system, causing them to develop all other symptoms of hypomyelination minus the shaking.

The controls and interfaces, mostly inherited form MGSV, still work like a charm, and the added elements are actually quite deep.

The few pleasures offered involve the viewer in inherited forms without reanimating their once attendant polemics.

«Cancer drug may benefit patients with inherited form of kidney disease.»

Parents who use in vitro fertilization in the United Kingdom will be able to test their embryos for inherited forms of cancer, following a decision announced today by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), a government fertility watchdog.

about FDA approves first therapy for rare inherited form of rickets, x-linked hypophosphatemia

For example, the following three genes are known to cause inherited forms of MDS and acute leukemia:

The prospect of identifying women with a particularly high risk of developing inherited forms of breast cancer arose last autumn, when researchers in the US finally tracked down a gene known as BRCA1, which in mutated form is responsible for about half of all inherited breast tumours.

Currently, there is no treatment for the majority of patients with dry AMD and other inherited forms of dry macular degeneration that result from the accumulation of bisretinoids.

Fragile X syndrome, the most common inherited form of mental retardation, results from a mutation that affects how genetic messages are ferried from the cell's nucleus to its protein manufacturing...

Gene therapy has been on a roll in the past year, with the FDA approving Spark Therapeutics» landmark gene therapy for an inherited form of blindness in December.

And a third, different kind of gene therapy from Spark Therapeutics — to treat a rare inherited form of blindness — is likely to be approved by the end of 2017, too, making this year a landmark for treatments that manipulate the body's own biological mechanisms in novel new ways to fight deadly diseases.

Berry, who once wrote that marriage «can not be altered to suit convenience or circumstance» and has long argued that marriage is an inherited form....

And we are asking the question: Should we keep supporting this inherited form or should we begin to do things differently?

Once the ground of an inherited form of experience has been uprooted, that experience wilt increasingly become formless, and consciousness with those both the center and the direction which previously made possible its activity and its self - identity.

All I'm saying is that you might be focusing on the things Otto doesn't do rather than the liabilities you'd inherit form another player.

Although mutations in several proteins can lead to inherited forms of the disease, nobody knows what triggers the overwhelming number of sporadic cases.

Glitches in the presenilin - 1 gene can cause the rare inherited form of Alzheimer's that strikes at a younger age.

Beyond PSP, other brain diseases are also marked by abnormal tau clumps — among them a rare movement disorder called corticobasal degeneration, an inherited form of frontotemporal dementia with Parkinson's - like features, and Alzheimer's disease.

Evidence now suggests that epigenetics can lead to inherited forms of obesity and cancer.

In people with kidney failure, cancer or some genetic diseases, including an inherited form of rickets called X-linked hypophosphatemia, FGF - 23 levels soar, causing phosphate levels to plummet.

Inherited forms of anemia may soon be treated by turning on a gene normally active only in the womb.

Scientists have spent much of the past three decades hunting down genes linked to this inherited form of the disease.

Recent studies in those with an inherited form of early Alzheimer's detected the presence of rogue amyloid proteins up to two decades before symptoms emerged, suggesting that we're intervening too late, when the damage is irreparable.

The DIAN study is composed of families with an inherited form of early Alzheimer's; many relatives have the disease or have died from it.