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Last Updated: Nov 1, 2009 - 11:48:48 PM |
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Progeria
Farnesyl Transferase Inhibitors in Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome
Johns Hopkins scientists have discovered that a drug currently being tested against cancers might help children with a rare, fatal condition called Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome, which causes rapid, premature aging.
Children with progeria appear normal until they're 6 months to a year old, but then begin developing symptoms normally associated with old age -- wrinkled skin, hair loss, brittle bones and atherosclerosis, which usually causes their deaths by about age 13. There's no known treatment.
Sep 28, 2005 - 1:19:38 PM
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Anti-cancer drugs might work in aging disease
Working together, scientists at the National Institutes of Health and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have developed a promising new strategy for treating a form of progeria. That rare but deadly and heartbreaking genetic disease causes children to age remarkably fast and die almost always before they complete their teens.
Aug 30, 2005 - 7:44:38 PM
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Lamin research project provides clues about premature aging
A step towards understanding cell mutations that cause a variety of human diseases, particularly in children -- including that which brings about premature aging and early death -- has been taken by researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Silberman Institute of Life Sciences and the John Hopkins University School of Medicine.
Aug 30, 2005 - 7:41:38 PM
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Drug prevents cell abnormality leading to progeria
Genetic disease causes accelerated aging, death in children
Aug 30, 2005 - 7:38:38 PM
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Farnesyltransferase inhibitors (FTIs) might be useful in Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome
In a surprising development, a research team led by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has found that a class of experimental anti-cancer drugs also shows promise in laboratory studies for treating a fatal genetic disorder that causes premature aging.
Aug 30, 2005 - 7:32:38 PM
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