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muscular atrophy [′məs·kyə·lər ′a·trə·fē] (medicine) Degenerative reduction of muscle size, especially skeletal muscles, due to a lesion involving either the cell body or axon of the lower motor neuron. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| We are excited that Tikvah Therapeutics will be undertaking the clinical development of these agents so that our discoveries will be commercialized to help the many patients suffering from the debilitating and devastating consequences of spinal muscular atrophy and other neurodegenerative diseases. 24) The impairments are likely due to the biological effect of missing dystrophin rather than loss of mobility and a disadvantaged lifestyle, as shown by a comparison with age-matched patients with spinal muscular atrophy. A year after Catherine Curry-Williams' son Shane died of spinal muscular atrophy, a rare neuromuscular disease, she established a playground in his memory. |
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