Sentences with word «junctional»

Patients with a rare genetic disease known as junctional epidermolysis bullosa (JEB) suffer from just this painful phenomenon.
Immunolocalization of intergrin alpha 6 beta 4 in mouse junctional epithelium suggests an anchoring function to both the internal and the external basal lamina.
Their young patient had a severe form of the disease known as junctional EB, caused by a mutation in a gene encoding part of the protein laminin 332, which makes up a thin membrane just below the epidermis.
Genetically altered skin has saved a child from dying of a rare disease called junctional epidermolysis bullosa.
«Location of spinal correction influences risk of proximal junctional kyphosis development.»
Yet despite significant advances in spinal surgery, modifying the curvature of the lower spine through surgical fusion increases the risk of abnormal spinal curvature above the level of the operation, a condition called proximal junctional kyphosis — or PJK.
The child suffered from junctional epidermolysis bullosa (JEB), a rare skin condition affecting fewer than 1 in 1 million people.
However, because IFN - γ is widely known to influence several endothelial properties, such as junctional integrity (21) and adhesion molecule expression (22), we elected to remove this cytokine from cultures immediately after the second session of cell selection.
(ii) We have characterized a novel component of endothelial junctions, Junctional Adhesion Molecule - C (JAM - C).
Zinc deficiency causes leakiness in tight junctional seals and consequently epithelial cell layers of the small intestinal lining.
The 16 transcripts associated with cell wall / membrane / envelope biogenesis include two putative membrane proteins, two junctional membrane protein complexes, and one transcript with homology to a cell wall surface anchored protein (see electronic supplementary material, table S5).
In 2015, a boy with a rare genetic skin condition, called junctional epidermolysis bullosa, had lost most of his skin and was close to death.
Here is a typical appearance of a junctional melanocytic nevus.
«The problem is that damage from bullets and bone fragments deep inside a junctional wound is not always visible from outside the body, and a regular clotting agent may not be able to reach the origin of the bleeding,» said Sydney Rooney, leader of the biomedical engineering student team that sought to solve this problem.
The new battlefield treatment is needed, the students say, because a tourniquet or a gauze pad with a clotting agent are difficult to apply effectively to deep wounds at these junctional body sites.
Four different structural types of the disease are known: simplex, junctional, dystrophic and Kindler syndrome.
AMTN is predominantly expressed by ameloblasts during the maturation stage of amelogenesis and present at lower levels in the junctional epithelium of erupted teeth.
Although AMTN is expressed in the junctional epithelium, the knockout mice appear to have an intact dentogingival attachment.
Conclusions: It is suggested stem - like cells may be sequestered in a niche at the junctional region where the corneal endothelial cells and the trabecular meshwork come together.
Polymorphic variants of the junctional sarcoplasmic reticulum protein JP45 have been shown to segregate in Malignant Hyperthermia Susceptible subjects of Malignant Hyperthermia families in the UK.
The protein composition of the junctional sarcoplasmic reticulum membrane encompassing the excitation - contraction coupling molecular complex (ECCMC) is extremely complicated.
Second, using laser ablation we are studying the balance of forces acting at the junctional region and how it changes during the repacking process and in different mutant backgrounds.
He has junctional epidermolysis bullosa (JEB).
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