Muscular dystrophy (MD) is a genetic disorder that weakens the muscles that help the body move.

The muscular Dystrophy do not maintain homeostasis.

When in high school, Jerry Lewis would clown around for his fellow students by immitating the shakey walk of another student who was suffering from muscular dystrophy. One day, unaware to Jerry, that student was in the same room when he was clowning around like that. When Jerry caught his eyes, he realized the hurt he was inflicting on him, and vowed never to carry on like that again. With success in show business, Jerry vowed to contribute to research on muscular dystrophy, and, hence, the annual telethon.

In the 1860s, descriptions of boys who grew progressively weaker, lost the ability to walk, and died at an early age became more prominent in medical journals. In the following ten years, French neurologist Guillaume Duchenne gave a comprehensive account of 13 boys with the most common and severe form of the disease (which now carries his name - Duchenne muscular dystrophy). It soon became evident that the disease had more than one form, and that these diseases affected males of all ages.

Nine diseases including Duchenne, Becker, limb girdle, congenital, facioscapulohumeral, myotonic, oculopharyngeal, distal, and Emery-Dreifuss are always classified as muscular dystrophy.

Parkinson's disease is caused by lack of dopamine a neurotransmitter in the brain. Dopamine is responsible for communication necessary for smooth muscle and coordinated movement. The inefficiency of the neurotransmitter causes impaired motor functions as well as speech. And it is brought on by the deterioration of the pathways due to lack of oxygen, drugs Pharmaceutical or recreational or other factors. No it is not an auto-immune disease.

Yep, both male and female can have it.

I am a female and I have MD.

The gene is on the short (p) arm of the X chromosome.

The gene is known as the dystrophin gene, or simply DMD. It is the longest gene known in the human genome, and codes for the protein dystrophin.

According to Aminoff, 2005; the point mutation causing Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy is exhibited on the Xp21 gene, belonging to the above stated chromosome.

the answer is anyone can get musclar dsytrophy

There are many types of MD. If the diagnosis is Duchennes MD, death usually occurs in the late teens, early twenties.

Duchenne muscular dystrophy is caused by a nonsence mutation in the dystrophin gene on the x-chromosome, this type mutation that occuurs in duchenne is what sets it apart from beckers or any other dystrophy. a nonsence mutation is a point mutation(additon or sutraction of a nucleotide in an exon) which causes the gene for dystrophin to be read half way which in turn causes muscle wasting.

they both involve mutations in which fat replaces normal tissue

Treatment of muscular dystrophy is mainly directed at preventing the complications of weakness, including decreased mobility and dexterity, contractures, scoliosis, heart defects, and respiratory insufficiency

it causes many things to change in your body,for instance i have this disease and it caused my to not have straight arms aswell as my stomach going curved and makes my back not straight aswell ,which brings my stomach forth and not back which is sometimes kind ofembaresing considering that i walk like a pregnant woman

Muscular dytrophy is not spread it is heriditary.

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