Medical Information

 Medical Articles  

• Previously Undiagnosed Spinal and Bulbar Muscular Atrophy as a Cause of Airway Obstruction after Robot-Assisted Laparoscopic Prostatectomy.
• Natural History of SBMA
  Descriptive timeline of SBMA discoveries - once in the link, scroll down for information.
• Stem cells 'treat muscle disease'
• Use of epidural anaesthesia for surgery in a patient with Kennedy’s disease
• Administration of testosterone results in reversible deterioration in Kennedy’s disease
• Kennedy's disease phenotype with positive genetic study for Kugelberg-Welander's disease: case report
• A Comprehensive Endocrine Description of Kennedy’s Disease Revealing Androgen Insensitivity Linked to CAG Repeat Length
• Whole-body Gene Therapy Developed for Muscular Dystrophy
  "Proof of principle" that delivering new genes to all muscles is possible
• NINDS Kennedy's Disease Information page
• DNA testing for Disease
• Spinal and Bulbar Muscular Atrophy - Clinical Features and Pathogenesis - PDF Document
• Leuprorelin Rescues Polyglutamine-Dependent Phenotypes in Transgenic Mouse model of Spinal & Bulbar Muscular Atrophy - PDF Document
  June 2003 article - research team:  Masahisa Katsuno, Hiroaki Adachi, Manabu Doyu, Makoto Minimiyama, Chen Sang, Yasushi Koboyashi, Akira Inukai and Gen Sobue, University of Nagoya
• DNA Sticky Tape Treatment
• Scientists believe they can stop certain genetic diseases by correcting DNA mutations.
• SBMA Individuals May Have a Low-Risk of Prostate Cancer
  Genetic alterations of Androgen Receptor Gene
• Lateral Corticospinal Tract and Spinal Ventral Horn in X-Linked SBMA
  Abstract by Terao, Sobue, Hashizume, Tanaka & Mitsuma
• PGD - Preimplantation genetic diagnosis for SBMA
  Abstract by Grewel, Leeflang, Zhang & Arnheim