Sentences with phrase «system disorder where»

Genetics or breed type has not been shown to play a role since allergic response is an immune system disorder where the cat has an abnormal reaction to a non-toxic substance.

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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.
Sleep apnea is a disorder where routine breathing is interrupted during sleep and is typically due to an underdeveloped nervous system, but there could be other causes.
Studying itching sensations is a relatively new field, but if we look at the number of diseases where itch is a major symptom, it includes not only atopic dermatitis but also nervous system disorders such as multiple sclerosis, as well as infection and end stage kidney disease.
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.
«You could conjecture that a similar thing may be going on in certain eating disorders,» Gottfried notes, «where the routine breaks on the whole system are tweaked somehow, so they're no longer responding to normal cues.»
The discovery of electron localization in 1958, for which Anderson was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1977, is the phenomenon where disorder turns a system from a conductor to an insulator.
McCormick said the spike timing is important for fine perception and may underlie problems in the nervous system and in psychiatric disorders, such as schizophrenia, where the timing problem might cause confusion.
Diets too high in protein also cause a negative calcium balance, where more calcium is lost compared to the amount taken in, a condition that can lead to bone loss and nervous system disorders.
Fly strike, with its red, crusty, bleeding lesions on the tips of a dog's ears can look just like mange, scratching from allergies, vasculitis — swollen, inflamed blood vessels — or erythematosis, an autoimmune disorder where the animal's immune system attacks normal, healthy tissue.
Steroids are also great at suppressing the immune system, meaning it's fantastic for helping control allergic reactions or autoimmune disorders like autoimmune hemolytic anemia (AIHA), where the body attacks the red blood cells and destroys them.
Prof. Kahol observes that as we move toward a world where human - computer interaction is based on various body movements that are not well documented or studied, we face «serious and grave risk» of creating technology and systems that may lead to musculoskeletal disorders (MSD), and that many of today's multitouch systems give no consideration to eliminating gestures already known to lead to MSD injuries, or to eliminating gestures that are symptomatic of a patient population.
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