Sentences with phrase «system disorder affecting»

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) scientists, in Atlanta, US, predict that the immune system disorder affecting gay men is due to an infection.

In a study described in the January 28 issue of Nature Neuroscience, the Hopkins team describes this new gene control mechanism and how it may contribute to Rett Syndrome, a nervous system disorder affecting mostly girls that causes problems with movement and communication.

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The disease is characterized by the accumulation of very long chain fatty acids (VLCFA) leading to a neurodegenerative disorder that is chronically debilitating and life - threatening, where the most affected tissues are the myelin in the central nervous system (CNS) and the adrenal cortex.

Childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) is a disorder of the nervous system that affects a child's ability to say sounds, syllables, and words.

Disordered stress reactivity can be established as a pattern for life not only in the brain with the stress response system (Bremmer et al, 1998), but also in the body through the vagus nerve, a nerve that affects functioning in multiple systems (e.g., digestion).

Lupus is an autoimmune disorder that affects the rheumatic system, which includes the muscles, joints and connective tissues, but it can affect other organs, too, according to the Lupus Foundation of America.

The full results haven't yet been published, but what has been revealed so far of this «antisense» therapy suggests we have overcome the biggest obstacle — how to deliver such therapies — at least in disorders that affect the nervous system.

«If lithium's effect on the cerebellum is the key to its effectiveness as a mood stabilizer, then a more targeted treatment that causes the same change in the cerebellum without affecting other systems might be a better treatment for patients with bipolar disorder,» Wemmie says.

In the past researchers have observed an association between poor mitochondrial function and Parkinson's disease, a neurodegenerative disorder of the central nervous system that impairs speech and motor functions and affects five million people worldwide.

The researchers are now investigating whether the ECO system is effective against other visual disorders, including Stargardt disease, which is a form of inherited juvenile macular degeneration, primarily affecting the central portion of the visual field.

George Daley of Harvard Medical School said on December 1 that he and his team have seen multiple patients affected by NEMO deficiency syndrome, a disorder where an inherited faulty gene results in a weak immune system and leaves patients prone to serious infections.

New research by investigators at the University of Massachusetts Medical School suggests the immune system plays an unsuspected and surprising role in the progression of Rett syndrome, a severe neurological disorder affecting children.

The vectors are customizable and could potentially be used as part of a gene therapy to treat neurodegenerative disorders that affect the entire central nervous system, such as Huntington's disease, or to help map or modulate neuronal circuits and understand how they change during disease.

They studied these correlations in 65 complex diseases affecting almost every system in the body, including arthritis, depression and lung cancer, and in 95 Mendelian disease groups (representing 213 disorders).

«60 genetic disorders affect skin, nervous system.»

Long - term sleep loss may affect the cardiovascular, endocrine, immune and nervous systems with severe consequences including hypertension, obesity and mental health disorders, among others.

«This impaired connectivity suggests that autism is not simply a disorder of social and communicative abilities, but also affects a broad range of sensory and motor systems,» Müller said.

«Although we are currently looking at neurodegenerative disease, there is potential for the technology to be expanded to psychiatric diseases, chronic pain, seizure disorders and many other conditions affecting the brain and nervous system down the road.»

Neuromyelitis optica (NMO), also known as Devic's disease, is a central nervous system disorder that primarily affects the eye nerves (optic neuritis) and the spinal cord (myelitis).

Thanks to a breakthrough led by researchers in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, treatment for hemophilia can now be administered via a biodegradable system, a capsule, giving people affected by the hereditary bleeding disorder hope for a less expensive, less painful treatment option than conventional injections or infusions.

A team of international scientists led by Baylor College of Medicine has discovered a novel gene (CLP1) associated with a neurological disorder affecting both the peripheral and central nervous systems.

Charcot - Marie - Tooth Disease (CMT) is a family of inherited disorders of the peripheral nervous system, affecting approximately one in 2,500 Americans.

Most influenza infections affect the respiratory system, but there have long been suspicions that they are also linked to neurological disorders.

Epilepsies are amongst the most common disorders of the Central Nervous System, affecting up to 50 million patients in worldwide.

New research by Vladimir Litvak, PhD, assistant professor of microbiology & physiological systems, suggests the immune system plays an unsuspected and surprising role in the progression of Rett syndrome, a severe neurological disorder affecting children.

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is among the most common neurological diseases in young adults, affecting 350 000 individuals in the United States and 2 million worldwide.1 Prevailing thought is that MS is an autoimmune disorder whereby an unknown agent or agents triggers a T cell — mediated inflammatory attack, causing demyelination of central nervous system tissue.2

The Division of Pulmonary Medicine deals with the breath of life in all its aspects: control of breathing; sleep disorders; obstruction to airflow in the common diseases of upper and lower airways such as croup, bronchiolitis, asthma, cystic fibrosis, and bronchopulmonary dysplasia; restriction to lung function from disorders affecting the chest wall, the musculature, the nervous system, or lung tissue itself; congenital anomalies; accidents such as inhalation of foreign bodies, hydrocarbons, or toxic gases; secondary effects of non-pulmonary system disorders such as gastrointestinal reflux, myopathy, or cardiac dysfunction; disease of the upper respiratory tract including rhinitis and sinusitis; and so on.

An autoimmune disease, MS is an unpredictable and potentially debilitating disorder of the central nervous system that affects more than two million people worldwide.

Beyond the clinical effects of diseases like Alzheimer's and other dementias, these disorders also profoundly affect an individual's independence and quality of life as well as the lives of caregivers and others within the support system.

Miniaturized system could be used to treat neurological disorders that affect specific brain regions.

Both MPS IIIA and GM1 are classified as neuropathic (i.e. affecting the central nervous system) Lysosomal Storage Disorders, a group of approximately 50 rare inherited metabolic disorders that result from defects in lysosomal function.

Neurological disorders comprise more than 600 conditions that affect the nervous system, impacting an estimated 50 million Americans every year.

This neurological disorder affects the central nervous system.

Sleep - related eating disorders can negatively affect your metabolic system.

For people with liver disease, diabetes, cancer, stomach disorders, or any other condition that affects the immune system, Vibrio vulnificus is extremely dangerous: it can invade the bloodstream, causing a life - threatening illness.

PMM2 - CDG is a rare genetic disorder that affects the nervous system and other parts of the body.

The histaminergic system is involved in basic physiological functions, such as the sleep - wake cycle, energy and endocrine homeostasis, sensory and motor functions, cognition, and attention, which are all severely affected in neuropsychiatric disorders.

Crohn's Disease is an Autoimmune Disorder which affects Intestine, Colons and Digestive System.

According to the Cleveland Clinic, IBS is one of the most common disorders that affects the functioning of the GI system.

For anyone going through mast cell activation disorder, or histamine intolerance, you are aware that the symptoms can affect * any * of your body systems, many of them all at once.

Hashimoto's hypothyroidism, a disorder in which the immune system attacks and destroys the thyroid gland, is one of the most prevalent diseases today, affecting predominantly women.

Acupuncture is also used alone or in conjunction with more traditional treatments to help gastrointestinal disorders, incontinence, various neurological disorders, immunosuppression, lick granulomas and other dermatologic disorders, and problems affecting the reproductive, endocrine, and metabolic systems.

Some of the behavioral manifestations associated with hyperesthesia resemble clinical signs sometimes observed in other feline health disorders affecting the nervous system, skin, and muscles.

Abstract: Epilepsy is the most common nervous system disorder of dogs affecting 0.75 % of the canine population (1 % of the human population).

Canine multiple system degeneration (CMSD), is a progressive inherited autosomal recessive neurological movement disorder affecting Chinese Crested dogs, also called pure cerebellar ataxia (PNA) in Kerry Blue Terrier dogs.

Autoimmune diseases are multisystem disorders and this means that they affect more than one system.

The most common form is peripheral vestibular disease which arises from disorders affecting the inner ear and nerves (i.e. not the central nervous system).

Although there are a number of diseases which can affect the vestibular system, generally we can break them down anatomically into peripheral and central disorders.

It's a metabolic storage disorder resulting in lysosomal enzyme deficiency, which affects nearly every system in the dog's body.

It is possible that these patients may have a vasculitis disorder affecting the central nervous system or something other than the typical steroid responsive meningitis.