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Like other mitochrondrial diseases, MNGIE is a multisystem disorder. [6] MNGIE primarily affects the gastrointestinal and neurological systems. Gastrointestinal symptoms may include gastrointestinal dysmotility, due to inefficient peristalsis, which may result in pseudo-obstruction and cause malabsorption of nutrients.
Abnormal cannabidiol (Abn-CBD) is a synthetic regioisomer of cannabidiol, which unlike most other cannabinoids produces vasodilator effects, lowers blood pressure, and induces cell migration, cell proliferation and mitogen-activated protein kinase activation in microglia, but without producing any psychoactive or sedative effects.
45,X/46,XY mosaicism, also known as X0/XY mosaicism and mixed gonadal dysgenesis, [1] is a mutation of sex development in humans associated with sex chromosome aneuploidy and mosaicism of the Y chromosome.
REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD) is a parasomnia in which individuals with RBD lose the paralysis of muscles (atonia) that is normal during rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, and act out their dreams or have other abnormal movements or vocalizations. [10] Abnormal sleep behaviors may appear decades before any other symptoms, often as an early ...
MELAS is a condition that affects many of the body's systems, particularly the brain and nervous system (encephalo-) and muscles (myopathy). In most cases, the signs and symptoms of this disorder appear in childhood following a period of normal development. [4]
AA amyloidosis is a form of amyloidosis, a disease characterized by the abnormal deposition of fibers of insoluble protein in the extracellular space of various tissues and organs. In AA amyloidosis, the deposited protein is serum amyloid A protein (SAA), an acute-phase protein which is normally soluble and whose plasma concentration is highest ...
The late actor's son Manoah confirmed his death in a Facebook post shared on Monday, Feb. 10, writing, “With a heavy heart… our father Peter N. Tuiasosopo passed away this morning at 3:16 a.m. ...
A combination hemoglobinopathy occurs when someone inherits two different abnormal hemoglobin genes. If these are different versions of the same gene, one having been inherited from each parent it is an example of compound heterozygosity. Both alpha- and beta- thalassemia can coexist with other hemoglobinopathies.