Researchers feed tiny pills of RNA to planarians to identify genes essential for regeneration
...d to human genes associated with diseases, such as ataxia (inability to coordinate muscular movements), bradyopsia (slow vision), and cancer. Only eight of those genes have a corresponding knockout gene in mice. This means researchers may be able to use planarians to learn about human diseases that can't be...Pinpointing the cause of a neurodegenerative disorder
...he rare neurodegenerative disorder spinocerebellar ataxia type 1 (SCA1) suffer damage to cerebellar Purkinje cells caused by a toxic buildup of the protein Ataxin-1. Researchers knew that SCA1, Huntington's disease and other related disorders arise because of a "genetic stutter," in which a mutation causes ...Study ties 'new' cell-death mechanism to developmental and degenerative brain disorders
...nt disease manifestations. The Filipino family's ataxia is an adult-onset type with prominent motor coordi...mptoms and cerebellar atrophy. The French family's ataxia is a childhood-onset type, with mental retardation and seizures in some individuals. With mental ret...U of MN researchers identify ataxia gene
...gnoses and gives us new insight into the causes of ataxia and other neurodegenerative diseases, an important...e have a genetic form of ataxia. Spinocerebellar ataxia type 5 (SCA5) is a dominant gene disorder; if a parent has the disease, each of their children has a...Heal thyself: Systems biology model reveals how cells avoid becoming cancerous
...NA damage caused by ultraviolet light is disabled, ataxia telangiectasia, a progressive, neurodegenerative childhood disease, Werner syndrome, a premature aging disorder, and others. "DNA damage is a basic physiological process that is important to coping with environmental toxins and a number of congenita...Fragile X-Associated Tremor /Ataxia Syndrome Need Guidelines For Diagnostic Tests
...S. Men age 50 and older who develop unexplained ataxia should undergo testing to check if they have the F... in Ireland examined a 70-year-old woman with mild ataxia and tremor that became severe after receiving chemotherapy to treat breast cancer. She had two sons ...Cell molecules behind neuro degenerative diseases
...lude spinobulbar muscular atrophy; spinocerebellar ataxia types 1, 2, 3, 6, 7 and 17; and dentatorubral-pallidoluysian atrophy, or Haw River Syndrome. Scientists are uncertain if protein deposition causes nerve cells to deteriorate and die. However, studies show that the greater the number of glutamine rep...Pump up the Thiamine levels after gastric surgery
...trio of eye movement abnormalities, confusion, and ataxia are seen in less than 20 percent of patients. It is unusual because the patient also had hearing loss." Highlighting the relation and importance of vitamin B1 is Raul N. Mandler, MD, a Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology and neurologist at......at the location. A gene responsible for a type of ataxia has been deciphered. Ataxia is an incurable degen...gnoses and gives us new insight into the causes of ataxia and other neurodegenerative diseases, an important step towards developing an effective treatment."....