Narcolepsy is a chronic brain disorder that disrupts sleep-wake cycles. People with narcolepsy may feel refreshed after waking but often become very sleepy during the day—this is called excessive ...
When these drugs bind to a pair of alpha subunits, they stimulate an initial opening of the ion channel and cause local contractions (i.e., fasciculation). Since these drugs are not broken down by ...
Down syndrome is a genetic disorder caused by having an extra copy of chromosome 21. It affects one of every 700 babies born in the United States each year, causing distinctive physical and facial ...
Metrus, MDAlmost all of us will have experienced a fasciculation at one time or another. A fasciculation is simply a small, involuntary muscle twitch that occurs spontaneously on any body part. The ...
Constitutive TGFβ signaling is important in maintaining retinal neurons and blood vessels and is a factor contributing to the risk for age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a retinal disease ...