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This digital document is an article from Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, 3rd ed., brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 2163 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.The third edition of this authoritative, comprehensive, in-depth medical guide features information on medical topics in language accessible to adult laypersons. Disease/disorder articles typically cover definition; description; causes and symptoms; diagnosis; treatments; prevention; and more. Test/treatment articles typically cover definition; purposes; precautions; preparation; risks; normal and abnormal results; and much more. ... Read more

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How, and to what extent, do patient organisations renew traditional forms of social participation and protest? This question is examined, drawing on a socio-historical case study of the Association Francaise contre les Myopathies-French Muscular Dystrophy Organisation (AFM). The originality of the AFM is that it has not been content to endorse the classic role of representation of people with muscular dystrophy (MD) and their families. It has also articulated and structured different social spaces that allow people suffering from genetic diseases and severe disabilities to be considered as fully-fledged human beings, persons, and citizens within those spaces. Based on quantitative data and methods, this paper aims to characterize this reconfiguration of social spaces that the AFM has undertaken. My contention is that it has given shape to a different form of collective mobilization, one in which the patient organisation is a mediator between different social actors, as much as a patients' representative. It helps a new issue, here MD, to emerge so that the largest possible collective designate it as a general public concern. As we shall discuss, this renews the question of patients' collective identity and citizenship. ... Read more

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Title: A-B fighting MD for 10th year. (Anheuser-Busch Companies Inc. to participate in Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethon for muscular dystrophy)
Publication: Modern Brewery Age (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 7, 1989
Publisher: Business Journals, Inc.
Volume: v40Issue: n32Page: p3(1)

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Title: Gene transfer offers hope for muscular dystrophy: coaxing protein production.(News)(Brief Article)
Author: Kerri Wachter
Publication: Internal Medicine News (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 1, 2003
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Information on many genetic disorders, and the frequent new findings on them, has been extremely difficult to come by—until now. The “Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders” addresses the need for current, hard-to-find facts on emerging discoveries. The two-volume Encyclopedia, presented in a single alphabetical sequence, provides clear, complete information on genetic disorders, including conditions, tests, procedures, treatments and therapies, in articles that are both comprehensive and easy to understand, in language accessible to laypersons. The articles are arranged in a standardized format for quick comparison and ease of use, while non-disorder topics are covered in detail with extended entries. Students will want to consult the “Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders” for useful information on a range of well known disorders, including Down Syndrome, Trisomy, Hemophilia and Tourette Syndrome, and rarely seen diseases such as Meckel Syndrome, Neuraminidase Deficiency and Phenylketonuria.

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This Project will provide us with a picture of Special educational needs in the context of Children with muscular dystrophy in Mauritius. The main aims and objectives of the study are to analyze whether children suffering from Muscular dystrophy benefit from special education in Mauritius and what sort of Government intervention exists to address the problem.The study also provides innovative information to the public and creates awareness on the situation of the educational system concerning children with Muscular dystrophy. The methodology was mainly covered by qualitative research methods.For instance, unstructured interviews were carried out to gather first-hand information on special educational issues of Children with Muscular dystrophy.The main result of this project is that access to special or even mainstream education is a major challenge for Muscular dystrophy sufferers. ... Read more

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DMD is the most common muscular dystrophy in childhood and incurable to date. It is caused by the absence of dystrophin, what influences several signal transduction pathways. The thesis is interested in the investigation and modulation of signal transduction pathways that may compensate the lack of dystrophin as an alternative therapy strategy. To study dystrophin downstream pathways, the mRNA expression of DMD patients and two DMD siblings with an intra-familially different course of DMD were analysed. Genes, found differently expressed in the two DMD siblings, are first part of a signalling pathway linking dystrophin, which is first represented in a Petri net. The central point of this pathway is the transcription factor NFATc. Invariant and theoretical knockout analyses of the net were applied. On human SkMCs, modulation of protein activity and of gene expression using siRNA, vector-DNA, and chemical substances were performed. The cells were studied by proliferation and vitality tests as well as expression analyses at mRNA and protein level. According to the basic idea of this study, a new therapeutic strategy becomes apparent, which considers dystrophin downstream processes. ... Read more

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How, and to what extent, do patient organisations renew traditional forms of social participation and protest? This question is examined, drawing on a socio-historical case study of the Association Francaise contre les Myopathies-French Muscular Dystrophy Organisation (AFM). The originality of the AFM is that it has not been content to endorse the classic role of representation of people with muscular dystrophy (MD) and their families. It has also articulated and structured different social spaces that allow people suffering from genetic diseases and severe disabilities to be considered as fully-fledged human beings, persons, and citizens within those spaces. Based on quantitative data and methods, this paper aims to characterize this reconfiguration of social spaces that the AFM has undertaken. My contention is that it has given shape to a different form of collective mobilization, one in which the patient organisation is a mediator between different social actors, as much as a patients' representative. It helps a new issue, here MD, to emerge so that the largest possible collective designate it as a general public concern. As we shall discuss, this renews the question of patients' collective identity and citizenship. ... Read more

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