Fatal familial insomnia (FFI) is a genetic prion disease linked to the D178N/M129 mutation in the PRNP gene encoding the cellular prion protein (PrPC). Symptoms, including insomnia, motor abnormalities and memory loss, appear in the 5th decade of life, leading to death within two years. ...
as the human doppel protein therapeutic treatment of Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker syndrome (GSS), or therapeutic treatment Zhou encephalopathy (TSE), Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease atypical (CJD), fatal familial insomnia (FFI), and is also disclosed (PrP) used for the manufacture of a medicament for....
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Fatal familial insomnia: a model disease in sleep physiopathology Fatal Familial Insomnia (FFI) is characterized by loss of sleep, oneiric stupor with autonomic/motor hyperactivity and somato-motor abnormalities (pyramida... P Montagna - 《Sleep Medicine Reviews》 被引量: 116发表: 2005年 Amygdala-...
In humans, TSEs are represented by Creutzfeldt Jakob disease (CJD), Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker syndrome, Fatal Familial Insomnia and Kuru. In animals, the prominent prion diseases are scrapie of sheep and goats, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) of cattle and chronic wasting disease (CWD)...
(accounting for 10-15% of cases), sporadic or acquired and include Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD), Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker Syndrome (GSS), Fatal Familial Insomnia (FFI), and Kuru. In humans, prion disease impairs brain function, causing progressive cognitive decline and abnormal movements....
Celecoxib is also used as an adjunct to standard therapy to reduce the number of adenomatous colorectal pol- yps in patients with familial adenomatous polyposis. For this purpose it may be given in doses of 400 mg twice daily with food. Reduced doses are recommended in patients with he- ...
Familial Pattern and Genetic Factors The high recurrence risk for autism in siblings and even higher concordance for autism in identical twins has provided strong support for the importance of genetic factors.30 Higher rates of autism are consistently noted in siblings of affected children. Recurrence...
"Sundowning" (or "Sundown Syndrome") refers to changes in behavior and mood that frequently occur in the late afternoon or evening in people withAlzheimer'sdisease and similar conditions that alter brain function. These changes in mood and behavior can affect the quality of life for the patient...
However, they may be responsible for a num- ber of adverse effects, irritability, headache, nervousness, palpitations, insomnia, and less often orofacial dyskinesia, anorexia, nausea, excessive sweating, and psychosis. Toler- ance to amphetamine effect may develop in up to one third of patients ...