Sentences with phrase «other fatal forms»

Without progranulin, the microglia are unrestricted — and induce prolonged and excessive inflammation that leads to neuron damage — and can contribute to the vast array of symptoms that afflict sufferers FTD and other fatal forms of brain disease.

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It is associated with coronary artery disease and other forms of atherosclerosis, and can lead to potentially fatal inflammation of the pancreas.

Artemisinin has a chemical structure called a peroxide bridge, which can be cleaved by iron ions to form free radicals that attack a range of proteins and other biomolecules; some researchers suspected that such an attack would be fatal for the parasites.

The dating discrepancies were largely due to a difference of opinion about how soon the rocks around the bones were formed after Little Foot fell into the cave: Clarke insisted that a great deal of time had passed, while the other researchers concluded that they had probably been laid down relatively soon after the poor australopithecine's fatal accident.

Unlike most forms of the disease, it's slow - growing, and while it can be fatal, in most cases it's indolent enough that men are more likely to die of other causes than the cancer itself.

At one end of the severity spectrum, early chronic valvular disease, some forms of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and some mild congenital heart defects may have little effect on an animal's lifestyle or life expectancy; at the other end, severe heart failure can interfere with even simple activities and prove rapidly fatal.

Other fatal diseases in dogs, especially forms of cancer, are suspected to be genetically inherited but the mechanisms are not yet understood.

Wet - tail and other forms of diarrhea can be fatal and always require urgent veterinary attention.

Although FIP may commonly strike an entire litter of kittens, my experience tells me unrelated adult cats rarely pass the fatal form of the virus between each other.

The Medical Case, held in 1946 - 1947, involved 23 defendants accused of organizing and participating in war crimes and crimes against humanity in the form of harmful or fatal medical experiments and other medical procedures.

If you or a loved one suffered serious or fatal injuries in a car accident in Surrey, you might be entitled to accident benefits and other forms of compensation for your damages and losses.

As Coulson J stated, «s 33 only applies to personal injury and fatal accident claims, not other forms of civil proceedings» and that such claims «have always been the subject of special rules relating to limitation», that secondly, as evident from countless authorities, «no decision under s 33 can be regarded as setting down definitive guidelines that are automatically applicable in another factual decision; any decision under s 33 has to be regarded as a decision on the particular facts of that case, and nothing more.»