Sentences with phrase «muscular atrophy affects»

Spinal muscular atrophy affects between one in 8000 and one in 12,000 infants, and about one in 50 adults are unaffected carriers.

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«My journey through motherhood has fueled my passion for creating strong, confident children, while also strengthening my desire to give back to my community and those families and children affected by Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA), including my daughter Holli.

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) affects adults while spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) mostly strikes young children.

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is the leading genetic cause of death in infants, affecting 1 in 11,000 live births.

But the diseases that they wanted to study — including inflammatory bowel disease and spinal muscular atrophy — generally did not affect blood cells.

For the first time, scientists found that in spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), the affected nerve cells that control muscle movement, or motor neurons, have defects in their mitochondria, which generate energy used by the cell.

Our research centers upon the proteins affected in tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) and spinal muscular atrophy (SMA)-- two neurological disorders whose genetic basis is well understood but whose cell biology remains unknown.

Sign the petition for Funding of Spinraza for all Canadian patients affected by Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) Cure SMA Canada, CORD, the Canadian SMA families and our supporters appeal to our provincial health ministers to provide all patients access to the only treatment available for this life threatening disease.

Lee Rubin, professor of stem cell and regenerative biology at Harvard University, employs them to study spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), a neurodegenerative disease affecting children that is similar to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in adults.

WHAT: The Departments of Neurology Columbia University and at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center are celebrating the opening of the SMA (spinal muscular atrophy) Clinic, a center devoted to the treatment and management of a group of diseases that affect motor neurons of the spinal cord and brain stem.

Genetic testing is available for you to see if you or your partner carry genes for Cystic Fibrosis, Sickle Cell, Spinal Muscular Atrophy and other disease that may affect your decision making.

By 8 months of age, affected kittens have severe muscular weakness, atrophy and contraction, and an inability to use their limbs.