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Factor Viii Clotting Factor
1,050 wordsHemophilia is a genetic bleeding disorder. People who have hemophilia have a deficiency or an absence of a coagulation protein. A blood clotting factor is deficient or absent. Bleeding is most often into joints, such as the knee, elbow, or ankle, but bleeding can occur anywhere in the body. People with hemophilia bleed longer, not faster. The severity of hemophilia varies greatly. Hemophilia A and Hemophilia B are the most common genetic bleeding disorders. Hemophilia A is observed in 80 percent...
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Hemophilia B Royal Family
761 wordsHemophilia Hemophilia is a genetically inherited bleeding disorder which is caused when one of the plasma proteins (needed to clot) is missing or abnormally formed in the blood. The word Hemophilia comes from the Latin word home, meaning blood and the word philia, meaning: having a tendency towards. Knowledge of hemophilia has been around since biblical times (due to the age of hemophilia it is uncertain who the exact founder of the disease is) but it wasn't until the 1960 's that scientists beg...
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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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Factor Viii Clotting Factor
878 wordsAccording to the dictionary Hemophilia is a hereditary disorder in which the blood fails to clot normally, causing prolonged bleeding from even minor injuries. This is only the very basis of this disorder. First of all there are two kinds of Hemophilia. Hemophilia A and Hemophilia B. Hemophilia A is caused by lack of protein factor VIII and is found in 80 % of hemophiliacs. Other names for this are classical hemophilia, factor VIII deficiency hemophilia. Hemophilia B is caused by a deficiency of...
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Factor Ix Clotting Factor
1,179 wordsIntroduction Hemophilia is a rare genetic blood clotting disorder that primarily affects males. People living with hemophilia do not have enough of, or are missing, one of the blood clotting proteins naturally found in blood. Two of the most common forms of hemophilia are A and B. In persons with hemophilia A (also called classic hemophilia), clotting factor VIII is not present in sufficient amounts or is absent. In persons with hemophilia B (also called Christmas disease), clotting factor IX is...
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Factor Viii Clotting Factor
1,200 words... ecombinant DNA technology and the discovery of the genes that control production of factor VIII have led to the development of recombinant factor concentrates that do not rely on plasma at all. What is the Cause of Hemophilia? Hemophilia occurs when one of the factors needed for blood to clot is missing or the amount present is too low for normal clotting to occur. Factor VIII is missing or too low in about 90 % of hemophilia cases. Factor IX is deficient in about 9 % of cases. Factor XI, X,...
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Czar Nicholas Alexandrovich Romanov Nicholas Alexandrovich Romanov Family
719 wordsOn May 6, 1868, an event happened that would change the fate of monarchy in Russia. Czar Nicholas Alexandrovich Romanov II was born in the Blue Bedroom of the Alexander Palace. Ominously, this occurred on the Orthodox day of feast for St. Job the Sufferer. This omen would prevision the never-ending trials he would face in his lifetime. In 1894, Nicholas's father, Czar Alexander III, died from a liver disease called nephritis. At age 26, Nicholas felt that he was not ready to rule Russia. However...
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Muscular Dystrophy Association Muscle Strength
3,091 wordsDiseases: Sex Linked and Sex Influenced There are thousands of cases of sex linked and sex influenced diseases worldwide. These diseases can range from a social inconvenience, to a fatal ailment. In sex linked diseases, like Muscular Dystrophy, hemophilia and color blindness, only males are affected. When a man infected with a sex linked disease has children, all his sons are normal, but all of his daughters are carriers. When a carrier woman and an uninfected man have children, half of the sons...
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Put In Place Gene Therapy
1,097 wordsGenetic Therapy that focuses on hemophilia Gene therapy is reinserting certain genes that helps deal with genetic diseases. There are three basic forms of this gene therapy. The first is Gene Inactivation Therapy in which the transferred gene neutralizes the proteins and evens out the amount or rids of the defective proteins. Another type is Gene Augmentation Therapy where the original form of the gene or the normal form of the gene is inserted into one of the cell? s chromosomes. This procedure...
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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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Tay Sachs Cystic Fibrosis
842 wordsGenetic Disorders Genetic Disorders Introduction Genetic Disorders are medical conditions that are caused by an error in a persons genes. Some of them appear as a birth defect, while others do not become distinct until later in life. Genetic disorders can range from those that cause death to those that produce only mild problems, such as color blindness or an extra pinky. Scientists have distinguished more than 9, 000 genetic disorders. Some are exceptionally rare while others are quite common. ...
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Blood Clotting Fifty Percent
357 wordsHemophilia Biology- 2 nd perioHemophiliaHemophelia Tim Postal Hemophilia Biology- 2 nd perioHemophilia Hemophilia is a genetic blood disease, which is characterized by the inability of blood to clot, or coagulate even from minor injuries. This disease is caused by an insufficiency of certain blood proteins, called factors, that participate in blood clotting and often by sudden gene mutation. Therefore, with the absence of factors, the blood clotting process is prolonged. There are different type...
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Clotting Factor Defective Gene
1,144 wordsHemophilia is the best known of hemorrhagic disorders. When a person has hemophilia, the blood does not clot properly and bleeding persists. The people who have hemophilia are called hemophiliacs or bleeders. Bleeding disorders, such as hemophilia, result from a disruption of the bodys process of how blood clots are formed. The coagulation process involve platelets as well as plasma proteins called clotting factors. Clotting begins when platelets stick to the site of an injury to a blood vessel....
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Factor Viii Clotting Factor
2,041 wordsHemophilia is a genetic bleeding disorder. People who have hemophilia have a deficiency or an absence of a coagulation protein. A blood clotting factor is deficient or absent. Bleeding is most often into joints, such as the knee, elbow, or ankle, but bleeding can occur anywhere in the body. People with hemophilia bleed longer, not faster. The severity of hemophilia varies greatly. Hemophilia A and Hemophilia B are the most common genetic bleeding disorders. Hemophilia A is observed in 80 percent...
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Blood Clotting Clotting Factor
773 wordsSevere bleeding. Thats Hemophilia Hemophilia Severe bleeding. Thats what happens when a person has Hemophilia. More than 25, 000 people in the United States have Hemophilia (Description of Hemophilia 1). Hemophilia is an inherited deficiency of a blood-clotting factor that results in episodes of dangerous bleeding (Hemophilia 1). As you read through this essay, you will learn more about the disease. Some characteristics should be. First you will learn about the diagnosis and prognosis of Hemophi...
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Grand Duke Blood Vessels
963 wordsIn his book, The Last Tsar, Edvard Radzinsky describes a very interesting viewpoint of the life and death of Nicholas Alexandrovich, the last Russian Tsar. Radzinsky's illustration of this ill-fated monarch follows the diaries of Nicholas from their beginning on March 1, 1881, to the final entry on July 16, 1918. 1 Radzinsky mainly goes over pre-marital relationship between Nicholas and Alexandra, the medical condition of Nicholas son, Alexei, and the imprisonment and execution of Nicholas and h...
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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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