TY - JOUR. T1 - Cholinergic urticaria associated with acquired generalized hypohidrosis. T2 - Report of a case and review of the literature. AU - Itakura, E.. AU - Urabe, K.. AU - Yasumoto, S.. AU - Nakayama, J.. AU - Furue, M.. PY - 2000. Y1 - 2000. N2 - Acquired generalized hypohidrosis/anhidrosis is a rare condition of unknown pathogenesis, while idiopathic cholinergic urticaria is relatively common. We report the case of a 19-year-old male with cholinergic urticaria and acquired generalized hypohidrosis, and review previously published similar cases of this association.. AB - Acquired generalized hypohidrosis/anhidrosis is a rare condition of unknown pathogenesis, while idiopathic cholinergic urticaria is relatively common. We report the case of a 19-year-old male with cholinergic urticaria and acquired generalized hypohidrosis, and review previously published similar cases of this association.. UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0033747668&partnerID=8YFLogxK. UR - ...
Hypohidrosis and anhidrosis are congenital or acquired conditions which are characterized by inadequate sweating. Acquired idiopathic generalized hypohidrosis/anhidrosis (AIGA) includes idiopathic pure sudomotor failure (IPSF), which has the following distinct features: sudden onset in youth, increased serum immunoglobulin E and responds favorably to systemic corticosteroid. No clinical markers reflecting the disease severity or activity have been established. Here, we report a case of AIGA in a Japanese patient successfully treated with repeated methylprednisolone pulse therapy. In this case, serum carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) levels increased up to 19.8 ng/mL along with aberrant CEA immunoreactivity of eccrine sweat glands. Interestingly, the serum CEA level normalized as sweating improved with repeated methylprednisolone pulse therapy. Therefore, serum CEA level may serve as a useful clinical marker of hypohidrosis or anhidrosis.
Anhidrosis: Find the most comprehensive real-world symptom and treatment data on anhidrosis at PatientsLikeMe. 21 patients with anhidrosis experience fatigue, insomnia, depressed mood, pain, and anxious mood and use Hydrocodone-Acetaminophen, Cannabidiol, Cannabis, Diazepam, and Duloxetine to treat their anhidrosis and its symptoms.
MalaCards based summary : Anhidrosis, also known as absence of sweating, is related to pyruvate kinase deficiency and insensitivity to pain, congenital, with anhidrosis, and has symptoms including increased sweating An important gene associated with Anhidrosis is NTRK1 (Neurotrophic Receptor Tyrosine Kinase 1), and among its related pathways/superpathways are GPCR Pathway and TGF-Beta Pathway. The drugs Acetylcholine and Ethanol have been mentioned in the context of this disorder. Affiliated tissues include skin, testes and lung, and related phenotypes are behavior/neurological and growth/size/body region ...
Anhidrosis, the absence of sweating, is a deficiency deserving careful investigation. It may result from a primary disturbance of the duct or secretory coil of the sweat glands, central or peripheral nervous system disease, or certain systemic disorders (1, 2). The following is an account of a patient recently seen in our clinic who developed generalized anhidrosis and ichthyosis with the onset of Hodgkins disease. The anhidrosis was not due to occlusion of the sweat ducts by the ichthyotic process, but was found to be the result of a degenerative change in the eccrine secretory cells apparently secondary to the ...
Anhidrosis is a medical condition where the body doesnt have the ability to produce sweat or not having the ability to perspire in response to heat. This condition may go on unnoticed and the recognition will only take place when a considerable amount of effort, exertion or heat fails the body to cause sweating.. Perspiration or sweating is triggered by our bodys emotion. These sweats usually occur on our face, palms of the hands, feet soles and especially under our arms. The amount of sweat and even the smell of it are set by certain factors, such as body mood, medication or medical condition, certain beverages and foods; which brings the awriness in the perspiration mechanism. This complex mechanism awriness may sometimes result to hyperhidrosis which is excessive sweating that can be very embarrassing at time for most people and may also be a sign of a major health problem or it may lead to nonexistent sweating which is anhidrosis.. When perspiration is only localized within the body, the ...
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The clinical spectrum of sweating disorders includes sudomotor excess and deficiency. Hyperhidrosis is characterized by sweating beyond that required to maintain a constant internal body temperature. Hypohidrosis and anhidrosis are distinguished by a reduced or absent ability to generate sweat for t …
Familial simple hypohidrosis with abnormal palmar dermal ridgesFRYDMAN, M; COHEN, H. A; KAUSCHANSKY, A et al.American journal of medical genetics. 1988, Vol 31, Num 3, pp 591-596, issn 0148-7299Article ...
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Follow us on Facebook! What is Hypohidrotic Ectodermal Dysplasia? Hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia is one of about 150 types of ectodermal dysplasia in humans. Before birth, these disorders result in the abnormal development of structures including the skin, hair, nails, teeth, and sweat glands. Most people with hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia have a reduced ability to sweat…
Hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia is a genetic condition that can result from mutations in one of several genes. These include EDA, EDAR, EDARADD, and WNT10A. EDA gene mutations are the most common cause of the disorder, accounting for more than half of all cases. EDAR, EDARADD, and WNT10A gene mutations each account for a smaller percentage of cases. In about 10 percent of people with hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia, the genetic cause is unknown.. The EDA, EDAR, and EDARADD genes provide instructions for making proteins that work together during embryonic development. These proteins form part of a signaling pathway that is critical for the interaction between two cell layers, the ectoderm and the mesoderm. In the early embryo, these cell layers form the basis for many of the bodys organs and tissues. Ectoderm-mesoderm interactions are essential for the formation of several structures that arise from the ectoderm, including the skin, hair, nails, teeth, and sweat glands.. Mutations in the ...
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First described by Lance et al in 1988,1 harlequin syndrome is characterized by a sudden onset of unilateral flushing and sweating of the face and/or upper extremity. Harlequin syndrome results from contralateral blockade of the sympathetic innervation to the vasculature of the face and/or upper extremity. The vasomotor sympathetic fibers of the face and upper extremity leave the cord at T2 to T3 and T4, respectively.2 The fibers then travel within the sympathetic chain to synapse in the superior cervical ganglion and then within the carotid plexus to reach their effectors.2 A one-sided sympathetic lesion leads to ipsilateral loss of facial flushing and anhydrosis as a normal response to heat or emotion and excessive sweating and flushing of the contralateral side.2 Harlequin syndrome is most often idiopathic; however, it can have many etiologies in adults3 and in children.2 It is associated with a 64% incidence of abnormal ipsilateral pupils, the majority being miotic, consistent with Horner ...
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Sweating (perspiration) is how your body cools itself. Too much of it is hyperhidrosis, too little is anhidrosis. Find out what is and isnt normal.
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The most common clinical findings are turridolichocephaly, prominent nose, large and soft ears, alopecia (partialis or totalis), severe growth retardation with thoracic kyphoscoliosis, bilateral dislocation of the hips, joint contractures, and mild syndactyly with a short fifth digit. Telecanthus and marked myopia are present in some patients. Mental retardation is severe, with an intelligence quotient (IQ) of approximately 40. Enamel dysplasia results in severe and multiple cavities. Less frequent features include ichthyosis, hidrotic ectodermal dysplasia, hypolacrimation, hypohidrosis, optic nerve atrophy with photophobia, autoimmune thyroiditis, multiple skeletal anomalies (fusions of elbows, carpals, metacarpals, spine), and recurrent respiratory infections. ...
A 35-year-old man sent us this self-portrait, taken with a digital camera, showing significant asymmetric flushing on the left side of his face after jogging. The episode resolved spontaneously after 30 minutes of rest. Harlequin syndrome consists of flushing limited to one side of the face due to sympathetic disturbance on the contralateral side.1 Although most cases are benign, imaging and neurological examination should be performed in patients with this condition to rule out serious structural lesions of the sympathetic pathway, such as mediastinal neurinoma, spinal invasion by lung cancer and brainstem infarction. ...
The coarse facial features have been described as Hurler-like. Two major types have been described: type 1 with onset in the first 6 months of life and rapid psychomotor and general neurologic deterioration, and the later onset, less severe type 2 in which angiokeratomas resembling Fabry disease occur. Infants with type 1 may not survive beyond one year of age. The Hurler-like face is less pronounced and the neurologic deterioration is less rapid in type 2 with survival often into the third decade or later. The intracellular accumulation of glycolipids and glycoproteins leads to cell death accounting for the progression of CNS disease. Abnormal bone growth (dysostosis multiplex) can lead to short stature. Elevated sweat NaCl, hypohidrosis, and poor temperature control can be a feature of both types but this is more pronounced in type 1. The DNA mutation is the same in both types and there may be overlap in some of the clinical features. Furthermore, both types have been reported in the same ...
It may be that the condition is caused by increased production of endorphins in the brain.[citation needed] In this case, naloxone may be a treatment, but it does not always work.[5] In all cases, this disorder can be in the voltage-gated sodium channel SCN9A (Nav1.7).[6] Patients with such mutations are congenitally insensitive to pain and lack other neuropathies. There are three mutations in SCN9A: W897X, located in the P-loop of domain 2; I767X, located in the S2 segment of domain 2; and S459X, located in the linker region between domains 1 and 2. This results in a truncated non-functional protein. Nav1.7 channels are expressed at high levels in nociceptive neurons of the dorsal root ganglia. As these channels are likely involved in the formation and propagation of action potentials in such neurons, it is expected that a loss of function mutation in SCN9A leads to abolished nociceptive pain propagation.[7][8]. PRDM12 gene is normally switched on during the development of pain-sensing nerve ...
It may be that the condition is caused by increased production of endorphins in the brain.[citation needed] In this case, naloxone may be a treatment, but it does not always work.[5] In all cases, this disorder can be in the voltage-gated sodium channel SCN9A (Nav1.7).[6] Patients with such mutations are congenitally insensitive to pain and lack other neuropathies. There are three mutations in SCN9A: W897X, located in the P-loop of domain 2; I767X, located in the S2 segment of domain 2; and S459X, located in the linker region between domains 1 and 2. This results in a truncated non-functional protein. Nav1.7 channels are expressed at high levels in nociceptive neurons of the dorsal root ganglia. As these channels are likely involved in the formation and propagation of action potentials in such neurons, it is expected that a loss of function mutation in SCN9A leads to abolished nociceptive pain propagation.[7][8] PRDM12 gene is normally switched on during the development of pain-sensing nerve ...
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Anyone who has broken a bone or even suffered a stress fracture knows the associated intense pain. Although most people would prefer not to have this pain, as the saying goes: no pain, no gain… in bone mass, that is. A recent study by Tomlinson and colleagues demonstrates the role that thinly myelinated or unmyelinated sensory nerves expressing neutrotrophic tyrosine kinase receptor (TrkA) play in the response of bone to mechanical stress. It was known that patients with congenital insensitivity to pain with anhidrosis (CIPA) have skeletal disorders. However, the interaction between sensory nerves and the response of bone to mechanical stress has not been previously defined.. Tomlinson et al. employed a novel animal system that uses a small molecule to inhibit TrkA. Mice were subjected to axial compression of the upper extremity, which produced an expected anabolic response and increased bone formation on the periosteal and endosteal bone surfaces. Mice with inhibition of TrkA signaling, ...
My second question here is: if we achieve the biological paradise (forgetting objections like pain is necessary)... how will we live? I mean, what about jobs, wars, and son on? This new world seems to me almost unimaginable (Pain is totally erased? Because without feeling seem problematic, like in Congenital insensitivity to pain with anhydrosis).. N.B.: Yes, I think we should take account of the abolitionist perspective. And yes, the world that would result if the abolitionist project were eventually successful is almost unimaginable. For starters, we can safely assume--considering the gargantuan technological obstacles that would have to be overcome for that vision to become a reality--that the elimination of suffering would not be the only difference between that new world and the present world. Many other things would have changed as well. Of course, absent the intervention of a superintelligence or the complete destruction of the biosphere (another way in which Earthly suffering could be ...
51 17. Sorensen VW, Prasad G. On the fine structure of horse sweat glands. Z Anat Entwicklungsgesch 1973;139:173183. 18. Evans SCL. Physio logical mechanisms that underlie sweating in the horse. British Veterinary Journal 1966;122:117123. 19. Wilson SM, Pediani JD, Ko WH, et al. Investigation of stimulus -secretion coupling in equine sweat gland epithelia using cell culture techniques. J Exp Biol 1993;183:279299. 20. Bovell DL, Lindsay SL, Corbett AD, et al. Immunolocalization of aquaporin 5 expression in sweat gland cells from normal and anhidrotic horses. Vet Dermatol 2006;17:1723. 21. Montgomery I, Jenkinson DM, Elder HY. The effects of thermal stimulation on the ultrastructure of the fundus and duct of the equine sweat gland. J Anat 1982;135:1328. 22. Scott DW. Large Animal Dermatology. W.B. Saunders, Philidelphia, PA 1988:1718. 23. Takagi S, Tagawa, M. Nerve fibers supplying the horse sweat gland. Jpn J P hysiol 1961;11:158161. 24. Takagi S, Tagawa M. A cytological and cytochemical study of ...
br,,br,A particular single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP), rs132630309, is characterized by a mutated C instead of a normal T on the forward strand at position 5448 of the EDA (ectodysplasin A) gene on the X chromosome. The normal DNA sequence around this position is: [[Image:BME103_Group13_SINormalsequence.png]] while the SNP associated DNA sequence is: [[Image:BME103_Group13_SIMutatedsequence.png]]. At the protein level, this mutation causes a change from arginine (R; associated with the DNA triplet CGG) to leucine (L; associated with the DNA triplet CTG). The condition associated with this SNP is hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia; this is one of a group of syndromes known as ectodermal dysplasia which is characterized by abnormal development of the skin, hair, nails, teeth, or sweat glands (Taken from the NCBI database). More info on this SNP can be found via this web link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/projects/SNP/snp_ref.cgi?rs=132630309 ...
Prosthetic rehabilitation of a 7 year old child with Hypohidrotic Ectodermal Dysplasia. Rani TS , Reddy RE , Manjula M , Sreelakshmi N. Indian Journal of Dental Advancements.2009, Issue 1, Vol:1, Page: 56-59 ...
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Imagine a life without pain. At first thought it sounds like a wonderful gift that I would love to receive. But consider Gabby Gingras. At a few days old Gabby slept through the prick of a blood test. And in the mornings, she would be in her crib, but freezing cold to the touch. What her parents later discovered was that Gabby didnt flinch at the pain of a needle or respond to being so cold because she couldnt feel it. Gabby suffers from an extremely rare disorder called congenital insensitivity to pain. For unknown reasons, the connection between the nerves that sense pain and the brains recognition of pain is missing. When Gabby started cutting teeth she would bite down through the skin and would have bit to the bone had her mother not intervened. Gabbys parents made the decision to have her teeth pulled because she was mutilating her fingers. Learning to walk made Gabby more vulnerable. At age 2, Gabby broke her jaw and didnt know it until infection caused a fever. Her eyes were ...
Do you feel pain? Have you ever been in agony? From stubbing your toe in the middle of the night to having your heart-broken by someone, it seems we all have experienced elements of pain. The rare medical condition of CIP (Congenital Insensitivity to Pain) exists. Its one of many physical statuses in which a person cannot feel (and has never…
Did you know that some people cannot feel pain? There is a small percentage of people in the world that cannot feel pain due to a mutation in their genome. This might seem great at first, but in fact people with congenital insensitivity to pain (CIP) have difficulties in everyday life to ensure that they are not in danger of hurting themselves. Imagine not being able to feel pain in response to touching a hot cookie tray? Then you would have a more severe burn. So our ability to feel pain allows us to protect ourselves ...
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Hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia (also known as anhidrotic ectodermal dysplasia, and Christ-Siemens-Touraine syndrome) is one of about 150 types of ectodermal dysplasia in humans. Before birth, these disorders result in the abnormal development of structures including the skin, hair, nails, teeth, and sweat glands. Most people with hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia have a reduced ability to sweat (hypohidrosis) because they have fewer sweat glands than normal or their sweat glands do not function properly. Sweating is a major way that the body controls its temperature; as sweat evaporates from the skin, it cools the body. An inability to sweat can lead to a dangerously high body temperature (hyperthermia) particularly in hot weather. In some cases, hyperthermia can cause life-threatening medical problems. Affected individuals tend to have sparse scalp and body hair (hypotrichosis). The hair is often light-coloured, brittle, and slow-growing. This condition is also characterized by absent ...
Hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia has several different inheritance patterns. Most cases are caused by mutations in the EDA gene, which are inherited in an X-linked recessive pattern. A condition is considered X-linked if the mutated gene that causes the disorder is located on the X chromosome, one of the two sex chromosomes. In males (who have only one X chromosome), one altered copy of the gene in each cell is sufficient to cause the condition. In females (who have two X chromosomes), a mutation must be present in both copies of the gene to cause the disorder. Males are affected by X-linked recessive disorders much more frequently than females. A characteristic of X-linked inheritance is that fathers cannot pass X-linked traits to their sons.. In X-linked recessive inheritance, a female with one altered copy of the gene in each cell is called a carrier. In about 70 percent of cases, carriers of hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia experience some features of the condition. These signs and ...
Hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia (HED) is a congenital disorder characterized by sparse hair, oligodontia, and inability to sweat. It is caused by mutations in any of three Eda pathway genes: ectodysplasin (Eda), Eda receptor (Edar), and Edar-associated death domain (Edaradd), which encode ligand, receptor, and intracellular adaptor molecule, respectively. The Eda signaling pathway activates NF-κB, which is central to ectodermal differentiation. Although the causative genes and the molecular pathway affecting HED have been identified, no curative treatment for HED has been established. Previously, we found a rat spontaneous mutation that caused defects in hair follicles and named it sparse-and-wavy (swh). Here, we have established the swh rat as the first rat model of HED and successfully identified the swh mutation. The swh/swh rat showed sparse hair, abnormal morphology of teeth, and absence of sweat glands. The ectoderm-derived glands, meibomian, preputial, and tongue glands, were absent. We mapped
TY - JOUR. T1 - Biochemical and Stone-Risk Profiles With Topiramate Treatment. AU - Welch, Brian J.. AU - Graybeal, Dion. AU - Moe, Orson W.. AU - Maalouf, Naim M.. AU - Sakhaee, Khashayar. PY - 2006/10. Y1 - 2006/10. N2 - Background: Topiramate is a novel neuromodulatory agent commonly prescribed for the treatment of seizure disorders and for migraine headache prophylaxis. Calcium phosphate kidney stones have been observed with topiramate treatment, but a comprehensive elucidation of stone-risk profile was not reported previously. This study explores the relationship between topiramate treatment and propensity for kidney stone formation. Methods: Thirty-two topiramate-treated subjects and 50 healthy volunteers participated in a cross-sectional study in which serum chemistry test and 24-hour urine collection results were evaluated for stone risk. Furthermore, a short-term longitudinal study was conducted in 7 patients to assess stone risk before and 3 months after topiramate treatment. Results: ...
摘 要:Edar 信号通路最早发现于人少汗型外胚层发育不良综合征(hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia, HED)疾病患者,它是调控胚胎发育早期皮肤附属物-- 头发、指甲、牙齿、外分泌腺等的形态发生、发育过程的重要信号通路。与人类相同,小鼠皮肤内毛囊于胚胎期发生并发育成熟,出生后进入动态变化的毛囊周期性生长。小鼠模型的相关研究表,Edar 信号通路在早期初级毛囊的发生、成体毛囊周期性生长和被毛纤维直径等方面都发挥重要的调控作用。现综述Edar 通路中重要信号分子的结构特点、转导途径及其在皮肤和毛囊早期形态发生中的作用;阐述Edar 信号通路对毛囊生长周期的调控,对维持皮肤微环境稳态、促进皮肤损伤修复和表皮再生的作用,以及在临床治疗HED 相关疾病方面的潜在应用前景 ...
From UniProt:. Shaheen syndrome (SHNS): An autosomal recessive form of syndromic mental retardation. Affected individuals show severe intellectual disability, hypohidrosis, dental enamel hypoplasia, and hyperkeratosis of the palms and soles. Some may develop mild microcephaly. [MIM:615328]. Congenital disorder of glycosylation 2L (CDG2L): A multisystem disorder caused by a defect in glycoprotein biosynthesis and characterized by under-glycosylated serum glycoproteins. Congenital disorders of glycosylation result in a wide variety of clinical features, such as defects in the nervous system development, psychomotor retardation, dysmorphic features, hypotonia, coagulation disorders, and immunodeficiency. The broad spectrum of features reflects the critical role of N-glycoproteins during embryonic development, differentiation, and maintenance of cell functions. Clinical features of CDG2L include neonatal intractable focal seizures, vomiting, loss of consciousness, intracranial bleeding due to ...
Fabry disease is an X-linked dominant condition that affects 1 in 40,000 to 60,000 males. The prevalence in females is unknown. [1] Fabry disease results from mutations in the GLA gene encoding alpha-galactosidase A. The inability to metabolize glycosphingolipids causes a buildup in globotriaosylceramide in the cells found in nerves, vasculature, and other tissues including the cornea. This is a systemic disease that commonly presents as numbness and tingling of the hands and feet (acroparesthesias), skin lesions (angiokeratomas), decreased sweating (hypohidrosis), gastrointestinal dysfunction, kidney dysfunction, heart disease, vascular disease, and the following ophthalmic findings: corneal verticillata and vascular tortuosity. [2]. Corneal verticillata was first reported by Gruber in 1946 but it was not until 1969 when verticillata was attributed to Fabry disease by Franceschetti et al. [3,4] Corneal verticillata are also associated with many medications that cause subepithelial deposits and ...
Related Gene(s): GLA. Fabry disease is an X-linked lysosomal storage disorder caused by a marked deficiency of α-galactosidase A enzyme activity. Affected individuals are unable to degrade globotriaosylceramide (GL-3, also called Gb3) and related glycolipids in their lysosomes. The progressive accumulation of GL-3 and its derivative, lyso-GL-3, results in symptoms that include characteristic skin lesions (angiokeratomas), decreased sweating (hypohidrosis), chronic fatigue, depression, neuropathic pain in the hands and feet (acroparesthesia), gastrointestinal issues, strokes, cardiac disease (including left ventricular hypertrophy, leading to hypertrophic cardiomyopathy), and renal disease (proteinuria to end stage renal disease).. Fabry disease affects both men and women (heterozygotes), but the testing strategy varies based on sex. α-galactosidase A enzyme analysis alone detects all affected males, but is not reliable for the detection of Fabry disease in heterozygotes. Sequencing of the ...
Fabry disease is an X-linked rare metabolic disease, caused by a deficient activity of the hydrolase α-Galactosidase A, and characterized by a progressive and systematic deposition of glycosphingolipids in many organs.. The disease is most severe in affected males. In the classic form (where the enzyme activity is absent) the clinical findings are represented by pain and paresthesias in the extremities, vessel ectasia (called angiokeratoma) in skin and mucous membranes, and hypohidrosis (a reduced sweating) during childhood or adolescence. Corneal and lenticular opacities may be present. Proteinuria, renal impairment,cardiac and neurological lesions develop with time, together with hypertension. When end stage renal disease occurs, dialysis or renal transplantation may be necessary. In heterozygous females a residual enzymatic activity may be demonstrated and they usually have asymptomatic or later onset disease manifestations, although rarely they could develop a disease as severe as in ...
There are two major central pathways for pain and temperature sensation: the spinothalamic tract, which is the major ascending pathway, and the trigerminal pain and temperature system, which carries the sensory information from the face to the brain. In the spinothalamic tract, the signals that are sent through the central axons travel to the spinal cord via the dorsal roots. Upon reaching the dorsal horn, axons in Lissauers tract ascend and descend for one or two spinal segments before penetrating the grey matter and branching off to neurons in divisions of the spinal grey matter. The axons then ascend in the anterolateral quadrant of the spinal cord to the brainstem and thalamus where the information is sent to the primary somatosensory cortex. The primary somatosensory cortex receives this somatosensory input from the thalamus and encodes information related to the discriminative aspects of pain (DaSilva et al., 2002). When pain is discriminated, the hypothalamus can relay a response through ...
This gene encodes a member of the neurotrophic tyrosine kinase receptor (NTKR) family. This kinase is a membrane-bound receptor that, upon neurotrophin binding, phosphorylates itself and members of the MAPK pathway. The presence of this kinase leads to cell differentiation and may play a role in specifying sensory neuron subtypes. Mutations in this gene have been associated with congenital insensitivity to pain, anhidrosis, self-mutilating behavior, mental retardation and cancer. Alternate transcriptional splice variants of this gene have been found, but only three have been characterized to date ...
Congenital ectodermal dysplasia with hearing loss symptoms, causes, diagnosis, and treatment information for Congenital ectodermal dysplasia with hearing loss (Ectodermal dysplasia - neurosensory deafness) with alternative diagnoses, full-text book chapters, misdiagnosis, research treatments, prevention, and prognosis.
To the Editor: We read with interest the article by Sribnick and Boulis.1 They successfully treated a unilateral hyperhidrosis and blushing by T2-T3 excision using the posterior open approach. Before the advent of endoscopic surgery, there were 4 approaches to this procedure: the supraclavicular, the posterior, the axillary, and the transthoracic,2 the axillary actually being a limited-incision…
Geoff Woods. Pain perception is an evolutionarily-conserved warning mechanism that alerts us to dangers in the environment and to potential tissue damage. However, rare individuals - around one in a million people in the UK - are born unable to feel pain. These people accumulate numerous self-inflicted injuries, often leading to reduced lifespan.. Using detailed genome mapping, two teams of researchers collaborated to analyse the genetic make-up of 11 families across Europe and Asia affected by an inherited condition known as congenital insensitivity to pain (CIP). This enabled them to pinpoint the cause of the condition to variants of the gene PRDM12. Family members affected by CIP carried two copies of the variant; however, if they had only inherited one copy from their parents, they were unaffected.. The team looked at nerve biopsies taken from the patients to see what had gone wrong and found that particular pain-sensing neurons were absent. From these clinical features of the disease, the ...
Empathy is a complex form of psychological inference that enables us to understand the personal experience of another person through cognitive/evaluative and affective processes. Recent findings suggest that empathy for pain may involve a mirror-matching simulation of the affective and sensory features of others pain. Despite such evidence for a shared representation of self and other pain at the neural level, the possible influence of the observers own sensitivity to pain upon his perception of others pain has not been investigated yet. The aim of this study was to explore how patients with congenital insensitivity to pain (CIP), who are largely deprived of common stimulus-induced pain experiences, perceive the pain of others. Ratings of verbally presented imaginary painful situations showed that CIP patients semantic knowledge regarding the pain of others did not differ from control subjects. Moreover, the propensity to infer pain from facial expressions was very similar between CIP ...
Another exhibition I am excited to see is Painless at the science museum. It deals with all topics relating to pain, how we deal with it on a personal level, its over all effect on a society and also people who have a rare congenital insensitivity to pain. Sound kind of amazing but its really not. Imagine getting appendicitis but not knowing? The fear of death must be more apparent than usual. It is this often irrational fear that allows our fascination with the topic. Death is the only certainty and yet many spend their whole lives trying to avoid it. Here are few really interesting links worth a looks a look on the topic:. ...
Ectodermal Dysplasia (ED) is not a single disorder, but a group of closely related conditions. More than 150 different syndromes have been identified. The Ectodermal Dysplasias are heritable conditions in which there are abnormalities of two or more ectodermal structures such as the hair, teeth, nails, sweat glands, cranial-facial structure, digits and other parts of the body.
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Ectodermal Dysplasia (ED) is not a single disorder, but a group of closely related conditions of which more than 150 different syndromes have been identified.
Ectodermal dysplasias can be inherited in different patterns. To understand this, it is important to know a little about how our DNA is formed.
The AFDE (The French Ectodermal Dysplasia Association): A militant organisation By Olivia Nicolas, President of the AFDE The AFDE (The French
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Query? Block-1, Question #32: I am suspecting the diagnosis here is Partial Horners Syndrome- Ptosis, miosis without anhidrosis. The main etio for this presentation is Internal carotid artery dissection and the diagnosis could be made by doing Doppler USG of carotids ...
In 1875, Charles Darwin found a new disorder that appeared in each generation of a family, affecting some of the male members and not others. This condition was more prominent in very young people. Darwin also found that the daughters were never affected although they could transmit the disease to their sons, although no males have ever transmitted the disease to their sons.