According to a CDC report published in December, 34 babies have been born in the U.S. with birth defects linked to the Zika virus, which include things like microcephaly, brain damage and deformities, excess brain fluid, deafness, eye problems and nerve and joint conditions.
A leading professor has warned microcephaly - the condition which has seen babies in Brazil born with small heads and damaged brains - may be the "tip of the iceberg" among birth defects linked to the Zika virus.
Some Brazilian babies born with birth defects linked to Zika virus also have severe eye problems in addition to brain damage, doctors reported Tuesday.
Nonetheless, in the embryonic brain cooperative interactions between β8 integrin and Nrp1 are crucial for proper angiogenesis, and it will be interesting to determine if vascular-related developmental brain disorders are linked to defects in this paracrine adhesion and signaling axis.
Defects of cholesterol homeostasis in the adult brain are linked to neurodegenerative diseases like Niemann-Pick type C disease or Alzheimer's disease (Madra and Sturley, 2010; Block et al., 2010; Di Paolo and Kim, 2011; Wang et al., 2011).
So far, of 148 who have been tested, 28 had BRCA defects, including 17 with defects specifically linked to cancer.
In particular, microcephaly, a condition involving an abnormally small brain and head, has been linked to potential spindle defects.
At the time, the defect was linked to 13 deaths.
The defect was linked to nearly 160 injuries and 84 deaths.
