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immunodeficiency

a deficiency in or breakdown of a person's immune system
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immunodeficiency

[¦im·yə‚nō·də′fish·ən·sē]
(immunology)
Any defect of antibody function or cell-mediated immunity.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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The company is developing the gene therapy in collaboration with University College London (UCL), Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH), and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), as a treatment for adenosine deaminase severe combined immunodeficiency (ADA-SCID) - a rare inherited disorder of the immune system.
Eleven-year-old Joe Grant, who has never felt rain or sunshine, often wishes "my real world was as big as the one in my head." As the only person in England with severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID), Joe was born without an immune system and has spent most of his life in a "bubble," a specially designed hospital room in London.
The first one describes an 8-month-old boy diagnosed with pneumonia and severe combined immunodeficiency. Parainfluenza 3 was isolated in respiratory secretions and pericardial and cerebrospinal fluids.
That changed in 2010 when the United States Secretary's Advisory Committee for Heritable Disorders of Newborns and Children (SACHDNC) voted unanimously to add screening for severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) and other causes of T cell lymphopenia to the recommended uniform screening panel (RUSP) for newborns.
The index case-patient for an outbreak of poliovirus infection in Minnesota, USA, in 2005 had been given a diagnosis of severe combined immunodeficiency. She continued to shed iVDPVs while receiving immunoglobulin therapy for several months and finally stopped shedding virus after a second bone marrow transplant (23).
The deficiency of the ADA results lymphopenia and severe combined immunodeficiency disease (Giblett et al., 1972; Hirschhorn and Candotti, 2006).
In June 2016, GlaxoSmithKline, Fondazione Telethon and Ospedale San Raffaele gained European Commission approval for Strimvelis (autologous CD34+ cells transduced to express ADA), the first ex-vivo stem cell gene therapy to treat patients with severe combined immunodeficiency due to adenosine deaminase deficiency (ADA-SCID).
A novel about a boy with SCID (Severe Combined Immunodeficiency)--a topic already dealt with in other books?
FCX-013 was evaluated in a bleomycin-induced scleroderma model, utilizing severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) mice.
WASHINGTON, Safar 23, 1437, December 05, 2015, SPA -- Young adults and older children with X-linked severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID-X1) are safe to undergo gene therapy, new research says, according to UPI.
Among their topics are immunological tests from the microscope to whole genome analysis, primary immunodeficiency in the developing countries, severe combined immunodeficiency as diseases of defective cytokine signaling, adenosine deaminase deficiency as the first described genetic defect causing primary immunodeficiency disorder, how common variable immune deficiency has changed during six decades, and how primary immunodeficiencies have made gene therapy a reality.
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