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Pediatric Neurology Briefs, 1990 Juvenile chronic segmental spinal muscular atrophy of Hirayama is described in two adult identical twins from the Department of Neurology, University of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT.
J Gordon Millichap
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Spinal muscular atrophy and ependymoma
Saudi Journal of Medicine and Medical Sciences, 2017 Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is an autosomal recessive disorder, characterized by a progressive degeneration of anterior horn cells of the spinal cord resulting in hypotonia, skeletal muscle atrophy and weakness. We report the case of a 33-year-old female with SMA type IV (SMA4) who presented with symptoms of spinal cord lesion that was initially ...
Hosam Al-Jehani +3 more
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Protective Effect of Delta-Like 1 Homolog Against Muscular Atrophy in a Mouse Model [PDF]
Endocrinology and Metabolism, 2022 Background Muscle atrophy is caused by an imbalance between muscle growth and wasting. Delta-like 1 homolog (DLK1), a protein that modulates adipogenesis and muscle development, is a crucial regulator of myogenic programming.
Ji Young Lee +6 more
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Advances and limitations for the treatment of spinal muscular atrophy
BMC Pediatrics, 2022 Spinal muscular atrophy (5q-SMA; SMA), a genetic neuromuscular condition affecting spinal motor neurons, is caused by defects in both copies of the SMN1 gene that produces survival motor neuron (SMN) protein.
John W. Day +6 more
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Diabetic Muscular Atrophy: Molecular Mechanisms and Promising Therapies
Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2022 Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a typical chronic disease that can be divided into 2 types, dependent on insulin deficiency or insulin resistance. Incidences of diabetic complications gradually increase as the disease progresses.
Yuntian Shen +12 more
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Managing pregnancy in a spinal muscular atrophy type III patient in Indonesia: a case report
Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2022 Background Spinal muscular atrophy is a genetic disorder characterized by degeneration of lower motor neurons, leading to progressive muscular atrophy and even paralysis.
Cempaka Thursina Srie Setyaningrum +4 more
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Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2022 Background Spinal muscular atrophy is a recessively inherited autosomal neuromuscular disorder, with characteristic progressive muscle weakness. Most spinal muscular atrophy cases clinically manifest during infancy or childhood, although it may first ...
Cempaka Thursina Srie Setyaningrum +6 more
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Neural Regeneration Research, 2021 Infantile-onset spinal muscular atrophy is the quintessential example of a disorder characterized by a predominantly neurodegenerative phenotype that nevertheless stems from perturbations in a housekeeping protein.
Kishore Gollapalli +2 more
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Oral risdiplam for specific therapy in adult patients with 5q spinal muscular atrophy in the Moscow region [PDF]
Анналы клинической и экспериментальной неврологии, 2023 5q spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a rare autosomal recessive neuromuscular disease characterized by gradual loss of motor neurons with progressive muscle weakness and atrophy.
Ekaterina S. Novikova
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Нервно-мышечные болезни, 2020 The spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy is a slowly progressive X-linked polysystemic disease associated with polyglutamine expansion in the androgen receptor gene. The mutant protein exhibits toxic properties towards neurons and myocytes.
E. O. Ivanova +2 more
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