Sentence examples for wasting condition from inspiring English sources

Diagnosed with muscular dystrophy, a progressive muscle wasting condition, the former welder would be admitted to hospital with life-threatening complications.

Last year, US regulators licensed the drug for the first time in the States as a treatment for leprosy and severe ulceration and is now considering it for cachexia - the wasting condition that often accompanies cancer.

In 26 autopsies, he found a wasting condition he called "Mayombe cachexia," after the stretch of jungle where the men died; the men had atrophied brains, swollen bowel lymph nodes and other telltale AIDS symptoms.

Antisense-induced exon skipping can restore the open reading frame, and thus correct the dystrophin deficiency that causes Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), a lethal muscle wasting condition.

McCowan, who is in his final year of studying psychologies and sports studies at Stirling University, has Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy - a degenerative muscle wasting condition.

Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a life limiting, muscle wasting condition.

Ghrelin (or a synthetic substitute) may have potential for enhancing appetite in wasting conditions and perhaps even in anorexia nervosa.

He noted many instances of pneumonia and wasting, conditions associated with AIDS that he said should not have been fatal.

The discovery, described in today's issue of Nature, could lead to beefier farm animals and perhaps, someday, to treatments for wasting conditions in people.

Increasing our understanding for the pathways involved in hypertrophy and atrophy and particularly the interaction of these pathways is essential in designing therapeutic strategies for both prevention and treatment of muscle wasting conditions with age and with disease.

Of course, research in sports science may also have clinical relevance; for example, understanding processes of muscle growth and atrophy will prove beneficial for wasting conditions, not to mention the numerous health benefits of reducing the incidence of diabetes and heart disease.