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Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Muscle Weakness
1,379 wordsMuscular dystrophy is a group of progressive, genetic diseases in which the muscles that control movement degenerate and weaken. In some forms of this inherited disease, the heart and other involuntary muscles and organs are affected too. There are nine types of muscular dystrophy - (1) Myotonic Muscular Dystrophy (2) Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (3) Becker Muscular Dystrophy (4) Limb-Girdle Muscular Dystrophy (5) Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy (6) Congenital Muscular Dystrophy (7) Oculop...
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Current Research On Muscular Dystrophy
576 wordsDuchenne's muscular dystrophy is the result of a defective gene on the X chromosome. This gene is responsible for production of the muscle protein dystrophic. Dystrophin is an integral part of the dystrophic-glycoprotein complex which bears the brunt of the force generated during muscular contraction. When dystrophic is not produced, the dystrophic-glycoprotein complex (DCG) is not present. Absence of the DCG leads to tears in the muscle membrane because the muscle membrane bears the force of mu...
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Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Cystic Fibrosis
2,111 wordsWithin the first few hours after conception a phenomenon takes place in the one-cell human embryo that has awed scientists and philosophers for more then a century. The genes of the mother, carried by the ovum, and the genes of the father, carried by the sperm pair up. At that moment, when the paring is completed, the genetic fate of the person-to-be is sealed. The sex, color of eyes and hair, the height, blood type fingerprints, shoe size- indeed all physical and chemical characteristic are irr...
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Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Muscular Dystrophy Association
745 wordsMuscular Dystrophy Scientists have been struggling with the cause, treatment of, and cure for Muscular dystrophy since its discovery in 1886, by Dr. Guillaume Duchenne. Muscular dystrophy is a hereditary disease, affecting thousands of people every year, two-thirds being children between the age of birth through adolescents. However, Muscular dystrophy can occur with no family history of the disease. Muscular dystrophy is a degenerating disease, in which the skeletal muscles degenerate, lose the...
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Running Head Muscular Dystrophy
934 wordsRunning head: Duchenne's muscular dystrophy Name: University: Lecturer: Date: Duchenne's muscular dystrophy Outline of contents Contents page Abstract 3 Introduction 4 Normal anatomy / physiology of the muscular system 4 Symptoms of Duchenne muscular dystrophy 5 Causes of Duchenne muscular dystrophy 5 Diagnosis of Duchenne muscular dystrophy 5 Treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy 6 References 7 Abstract Duchenne muscular dystrophy is a muscular condition characterized by muscle enlargement a...
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Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Human Genome Project
1,486 wordsAdam and Eve were doomed for trying to be like god, this is the same damnation mankind is headed to. Everyone s dream is to have absolute power and control of everything. The genome project and DNA engineering gives man the ability to create life and customize life to his specific needs of likes. So how good is too good? Man s ability to make life or create perfect human beings so they can be in a state of Utopia will disturb the balance of nature. Every individual, every child born on earth is ...
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Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Sickle Cell Anemia
965 wordsHemophilia Hemophilia is the most famous bleeding disease. In this disease, there is a lack in the amount of a certain protein called anti-hemophilic globulin, or Factor VIII, in the blood. Factor VIII is extremely vital in the clotting of the blood. Because of the way hemophilia is inherited, only males can contract this disorder. Hemophilia is passed from generation to generation by female carriers. In the United States 1 male in every ten thousand has hemophilia. Symptoms appear in childhood ...
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Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Michael
1,823 wordsI Genetics My Dearest Susan, I don? t know how to write what I am about to write. There is no easy way to do this. I am not one to be able to put his feelings down on paper. You know that. I am sure you know what this is about. We have not been able to go more than 10 minutes together without bringing it up. I feel as if I need a break from the arguing. So I decided to write this letter. Rather than yell and get distraught, I? ll let you read exactly how I feel and you can write me back, in resp...
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Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Muscular Dystrophy Association
2,303 wordsThere Muscular Dystrophy MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY There is no single disease called muscular dystrophy. Muscular Dystrophy (MD) refers to a group of inherited diseases that are characterized by progressive weakness and degeneration of muscle tissue, with or without the breakdown of nerve tissue. (Emery, A. ) The muscular dys trophies are a group of muscles diseases that have three features in common: they are hereditary; they are progressive; and like stated above, each causes a characteristic of sele...
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Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Prenatal Diagnosis
2,186 wordsPrenatal DianosisHeredity Disorders, Other Biochemical Diseases, and Disfiguring Birth Defects There are over 250 recognized sex-linked diseases, affecting every organ system. Of these, 95 % affect males, (Emery, 1968). Despite these many sex-linked diseases, at present prenatal diagnosis can specifically be made in fewer than 40 diseases. (Emery, 1968). These sex-linked diseases are individual rare and some are named after physicians who described them, for example, Hemophilia A and B, Duchenne...
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