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disease noun affliction, ailment, attack, bodily deviation from health, bout of sickness, breakdown, chronic disability, collapse, condition, contagion, defect, deterioration, discomfort, disorder, distemper, epidemic, handicap, ill health, illness, indisposition, infection, infirmity, invalidism, loss of health, malady, morbus, plague, scourge, sickness, taint, unhealthiness, unsoundness, unwholesome condition, virus, weakness See also: contaminate, disorder, pain, taint How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The only way physicians have been able to distinguish Batten disease from other disorders is by noticing the accumulation of certain pigments and proteins within neurons and many other cell types--an accretion that may cause the illness or be simply a by-product of the true problem. The disorder afflicts infants and young children, and the three most common forms of NCLCoinfantile, late infantile and juvenile onsetCoare often referred to as Batten disease. Huhn was instrumental in the design of the protocol for the Company's clinical trial of its proprietary human neural stem cell product, HuCNS-SC[TM], in Batten disease now being conducted at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, Oregon. |
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