Sentences with phrase «like muscular disease»

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Drugs that turn on PGC - 1beta could be used to treat muscle - wasting diseases like muscular dystrophy — or to create superathletes.

But in disease conditions like muscular dystrophies, satellite cells can't keep up with repeated cycles of injury and are ultimately exhausted or functionally impaired,» Hindi said.

Gene Yeo, a professor of cellular and molecular medicine at UCSD, led the research and showed he could target RNA in living cells, a first step toward treating diseases like muscular dystrophy and neurodegeneration.

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.

The new technique can also be used to grow muscle cells from iPS cells from patients with neuromuscular diseases like ALS, spinal muscular atrophy and muscular dystrophy.

But questions remained about how important the genetic factors are and whether the disease is a discrete disorder like muscular dystrophy, for example, or a trait requiring treatment only when it reaches a certain threshold.

The technique holds the greatest potential for treating diseases like muscular dystrophy, in which billions of far - flung cells need new DNA.

Jiang estimates that human clinical trials could begin within a decade: «At first, the cells could be used to treat diseases with single missing or malfunctioning cell types, like hemophilia, diabetes, Parkinson's disease, and muscular dystrophy.

Studying such disease - resistant people could point to new treatments for rare conditions like Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

Stem cell therapy is used to treat incurable diseases like Cerebral Palsy, Brain Hemorrhage and Stroke, Spinal Cord Injury & Paraplegia, Autism, Parkinsonism, Motor Neuron Disease, Muscular Dystrophy, Liver Diseases, Huntington's Disease, Chronic Kidney Diseases, Optic Neuritis, Multiple Sclerosis, Cerebellar Ataxia and Friedrich Ataxia.

If the new approach to financing research hastens the discovery of a treatment, «it can serve as a model for other hereditary forms of neurodegenerative diseases like muscular dystrophy and Huntington's disease,» he added.

For health issues like renal diseases (kidney), muscular atrophies, extended anorexia, starvation, lethargy and acute weight loss etc. high energy canine food is used to overcome symptoms and to support declining physiology (body condition).