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  2. Leukodystrophy - Wikipedia

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    Thus, the natural result of a loss of this substance is decreased efficiency in impulse propagation. As myelin is produced by oligodendrocytes (a type of glial cell) in the central nervous system, an easy place to look for the cause is a mutation or malfunctioning of these cells and in other glial cells. [citation needed]

  3. Metachromatic leukodystrophy - Wikipedia

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    The incidence of metachromatic leukodystrophy is estimated to occur in 1 in 40,000 to 1 in 160,000 individuals worldwide. [13] There is a much higher incidence in certain genetically isolated populations, such as 1 in 75 in Habbanites (a small group of Jews who immigrated to Israel from southern Arabia), 1 in 2,500 in the western portion of the ...

  4. Leukoencephalopathy with vanishing white matter - Wikipedia

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    Childhood ataxia with central nervous system hypomyelinization, Vanishing white matter leukodystrophy, Cree leukoencephalopathy, Vanishing white matter leukodystrophy with ovarian failure, included, Myelinopathia centralis diffusa: This condition is inherited in an autosomal recessive manner

  5. You may have poison in your garden. Here are most fatal WA ...

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    Noxious weeds can be deadly for humans, animals and other plants in your garden. Here’s how to identify a plants before you get hurt. You may have poison in your garden.

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  7. List of poisonous plants - Wikipedia

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    Some plants have physical defenses such as thorns, spines and prickles, but by far the most common type of protection is chemical. [1] Over millennia, through the process of natural selection, plants have evolved the means to produce a vast and complicated array of chemical compounds to deter herbivores.

  8. US approves first gene therapy for children with rare genetic ...

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    The one-time therapy, branded as Lenmeldy in the U.S., is approved for children in certain stages of disease progression, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said. US approves first gene ...

  9. Megalencephalic leukoencephalopathy with subcortical cysts

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    A series of cases with megalencephalic leukodystrophy were described by the Indian neurologist Bhim Sen Singhal (1933-)in 1991. [14] [11] [15] However, it is sometimes referred to as Van der Knaap disease after the Dutch neurologist Marjo van der Knaap who described another series of cases with clinical and radiological features in 1995. [16 ...