This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Nerve growth factor was measured in cultured human skin fibroblasts from controls and from patients with familial dysautonomia and dystonia ...

FAMILIAL dysautonomia is an inherited disease with a complex but fairly well defined symptomatology. Alacrima, postural hypotension, poor motor co-ordination and a relative indifference to pain are ...

Scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) have identified a therapeutic RNA molecule that corrects the error in genetic processing that leads to familial ...

PROMINENT among the symptoms of familial dysautonomia are the manifestations of autonomic dysfunction. 1 A disturbance in catecholamine metabolism has been documented by the demonstration of high ...

In the March issue of The American Journal of Human Genetics, two groups report that mutations in the IKBKAP gene, encoding the protein IKAP, cause Familial Dysautonomia (FD). Two single base pair ...

Familial dysautonomia, or FD, occurs primarily in people of Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry. It impairs the development and function of the autonomic nervous system, causing problems with involuntary body ...

New York (MedscapeWire) Jan 25 — Researchers have identified the gene that causes familial dysautonomia (FD), a degenerative neurological disorder of the Ashkenazi Jewish population. About 1 in 30 ...

A new Tel Aviv University study has found that a popular food supplement called phosphatidylserine may be instrumental in reversing the detrimental effects of Familial Dysautonomia (FD), a ...

BOZEMAN -- A research collaboration between three Montana State University faculty members recently received a grant to help fund their study on the connection between a rare genetic neurological ...