Sentences with word «ossificans»

Patients born with a disease called fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP) are locked into this fate, often becoming severely disabled before adulthood.

Some rare diseases pull researchers in and don't let them go, and the unusual bone condition called fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP) has long had its hooks in Aris Economides.

About 850 people worldwide have been diagnosed with fibrodysplasia ossificans progressive (FOP) in the last five decades.

The cash donations were collected and giving to IFOPA (Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva — Stoneman Syndrome).

Myositis ossificans can occur as a complication of not treating a contusion correctly and involves a small growth of bone within the muscle.

The scientists started with a very different goal: to create a cellular model to study fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP).

Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressive (FOP) is a rare, but devastating genetic disease where bone is grown within soft tissue, such as skeletal muscle.

In fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP), a mutation triggers bone growth in muscles, which limits motion, breathing, and swallowing, among a host of progressive symptoms.

The rare, debilitating genetic diseases, fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP) and progressive osseous heteroplasia, strike in childhood and lead to years of pain and early death.

In that disease, fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP), a mutation triggers bone growth in muscles, alters skeletal bone formation, and limits motion, breathing, and swallowing, among a host of progressive symptoms.

Is fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP) caused by a genetically inherited mutation or is it random?

O'Connor had been following a hunch that grew out of his study of fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva, in which bone growth goes into overdrive, leading to deadly complications and early death.

In individuals with an inherited disorder called fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP), the same ACVR1 mutations lead not to cancer, but to a different mechanism resulting in abnormal growth of bone in other tissues.

The scientists were originally studying fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP), a rare disease in which muscles, tendons, and ligaments turn into bone — a debilitating process for which the disease is called «stone man syndrome.»

FOP, or fibrodysplasia ossificans progressive, is an extremely rare genetic disorder in which soft connective tissue progressively turns to bone.

The pair from Ballymena, Northern Ireland, are one of just three twins worldwide known to have a condition, called fibrodysplasia ossificans.