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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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Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease Cerebral Cortex
7,827 wordsDementia is an organic brain syndrome which results in global cognitive impairments. Dementia can occur as a result of a variety of neurological diseases. Some of the more well known depending diseases include Alzheimers disease (AD), multi-infarct dementia (MID), and Huntington's disease (HD). Throughout this essay the emphasis will be placed on AD (also known as dementia of the Alzheimers type, and primary degenerative dementia), because statistically it is the most significant depending disea...
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Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease Monozygotic Twins
4,687 wordsDementia What is Dementia? Dementia is an organic brain syndrome which results in global cognitive impairments. Dementia can occur as a result of a variety of neurological diseases. Some of the more well known depending diseases include Alzheimers disease (AD), multi-infarct dementia (MID), and Huntington's disease (HD). Throughout this essay the emphasis will be placed on AD (also known as dementia of the Alzheimers type, and primary degenerative dementia), because statistically it is the most ...
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Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease Monozygotic Twins
4,078 wordsWhat is Dementia? Dementia Dementia Dementia What is Dementia? Dementia is an organic brain syndrome which results in global cognitive impairments. Dementia can occur as a result of a variety of neurological diseases. Some of the more well known depending diseases include Alzheimers disease (AD), multi-infarct dementia (MID), and Huntington's disease (HD). Throughout this essay the emphasis will be placed on AD (also known as dementia of the Alzheimers type, and primary degenerative dementia), b...
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Autosomal Recessive Autosomal Dominant
1,092 wordsEhlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS) is a rare inherited group of connective tissue disorders characterized by defects of the major structural protein in the body (collagen). Collagen is a tough fibrous protein that plays an essential role in binding, holding together, strengthening, and providing elasticity to bodily cells and tissues. There are six major types of EDS that I will discuss, however I will only go into detailed discussion on two of the six types of EDS. The two major types of EDS are Clas...
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Important To Remember Males And Females
3,107 wordsHuntington's disease is an inherited neurodegenerative disorder. It is passed from parent to child in an autosomal dominant manner (Berkon, pg. 1493), meaning you need only one copy of the gene to inherit the disease. This is in contrast to an autosomal recessive disorder which requires two altered genes to inherit the disorder or an altered gene from each parent (Hayden, pg. 11). If you have the gene and live long enough, you will eventually develop HD and each of your children has a 50 % chanc...
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Range Of Motion Autosomal Recessive
2,639 wordsOsteogenesis imperfecta (OI) is a rare genetic disorder of collagen synthesis associated with broad spectrum of musculoskeletal problems, most notably bowing and fractures of the extremities, muscle weakness, laxity in the ligaments, and spinal deformities. (Binder, 386). Other collagen-containing skeletal tissues, such as the scleral, the teeth, and the heart valves are also affected to a variable degree. OI has a common feature of bony fragility associated with defective formation of collagen ...
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