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A trigger-happy soldier with bilateral ptosis and dysphagia
Biomedical Journal, 2015 Muscular dystrophy encompasses a group of disorders characterized by the progressive weakness of the skeletal muscles. These disorders are mostly inherited and have characteristic age and muscle group predilection.
F.M.H. Ahmad, K.V.S. Hari Kumar
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Pontocerebellar Hypoplasia Type 1
Pediatric Neurology Briefs, 2009 Slowly progressive cerebellar ataxia in a 12-year-old Indian boy with early onset anterior horn cell spinal muscular atrophy is reported from the Department of Pediatric Neurology, Government Medical College, Kerala, India.
J Gordon Millichap
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Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery, 2023 Introduction Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a severe, inherited neuromuscular disorder characterized by progressive muscle weakness and atrophy.
Mehmet Biçer +3 more
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Case Reports in Medicine, 2018 Spinal muscular atrophy is a genetic neuromuscular disease characterised by muscle atrophy, hypotonia, weakness, and progressive paralysis. Usually, these patients display increased fat mass deposition and reductions in fat-free mass and resting energy ...
Marwan El Ghoch +3 more
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The use of sugammadex in a patient with Kennedy′s disease under general anesthesia
Saudi Journal of Anaesthesia, 2014 Kennedy′s disease (KD), also known as spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy, is a rare, X-linked recessive, neurodegenerative disorder of the lower motor neurons characterized by progressive bulbar and appendicle muscular atrophy. Here we report a case of a
Risa Takeuchi +3 more
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Regulation of Skeletal Muscle Atrophy in Cachexia by MicroRNAs and Long Non-coding RNAs
Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 2020 Skeletal muscle atrophy is a common complication of cachexia, characterized by progressive bodyweight loss and decreased muscle strength, and it significantly increases the risks of morbidity and mortality in the population with atrophy.
Rui Chen +4 more
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Axonal Neuropathy with Neuromyotonia
Pediatric Neurology Briefs, 2014 Investigators from the Children's Hospital, Coimbra, Portugal, and centers in Belgium, report a 16-year-old girl with consanguineous parents who presented with progressive distal muscular atrophy and weakness, beginning at age 6 years.
J Gordon Millichap, John J Millichap
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Rehabilitation in spinal muscular atrophy
The Journal of the International Society of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, 2019 Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is an autosomal recessive disorder with symptoms of progressive skeletal muscular atrophy which requires multidisciplinary medical care.
Agus Iwan Foead +3 more
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Tumour–host interactions in Drosophila: mechanisms in the tumour micro‐ and macroenvironment
Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.This review examines how tumour–host crosstalk takes place at multiple levels of biological organisation, from local cell competition and immune crosstalk to organism‐wide metabolic and physiological collapse. Here, we integrate findings from Drosophila melanogaster studies that reveal conserved mechanisms through which tumours hijack host systems to ...
José Teles‐Reis, Tor Erik Rusten
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Type-1 spinal muscular atrophy cohort before and after disease-modifying therapies
Arquivos de Neuro-PsiquiatriaBackground Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA-5q) is a neurodegenerative disease characterized by progressive muscle atrophy, hypotonia, and weakness, with SMA 1 presenting symptoms within the first 6 months of life. Disease-modifying therapies have
Brenda Klemm Arci Mattos de Freitas Alves +3 more
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