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Q: What does sma positive mean in a immunohistochemical stain?
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What are the inheritance patterns for SMA?

Inheritance pattern for most forms of SMA is autosomal recessive, meaning that both parents are carriers of the disorder, and the chance of having a child affected with the disorder is 25% with each pregnancy.


What is the location of a temperate grassland?

Temperate grassland region is in Steppe, Veld, Pampas and praries.


What is the cause of spinal muscular atrophy?

Causes weakness and wasting of voluntary muscle in arms and legs of infants. Occurs in brain and spinal cord of body. This is caused by missing gene known as survival motor neuron gene (smn1). This gene is responsible for the production of a protein essential to motor neurons. When you are an infant you body destroys many of the neurons because as an infant you have too many. In SMA you body will not stop destroying the neurons, you body eventually becomes weak and you can not move on you own. There is no known cure.


Why are smart alloys are used in manufacture of spectacles?

''Nitinol'' is a SMA (shape memory alloy) that have beendesignedto work in a particular way in response to the stresses and strains placed on it, specially developed to 'remember' its shape under specific conditions. ''Nitinol'' is an alloy of nickel and titanium.


What is a chem 8 lab test for?

Chem-8 or BMP (basic metabolic panel) or the older term SMA-8 (sequential multichannel analysis) refers to a blood test which measures the levels of 8 chemical compounds. The levels of these compounds are often used to diagnose and track the progression of certain medical conditions or monitor the body's responses to medications and/or toxins. These compounds include sodium (Na+), potassium (K+), chloride (Cl-), bicarbonate or carbon dioxide (CO2), blood urea nitrogen (BUN), creatinine, glucose and calcium (Ca2+). Chem-7 refers to all of the above except calcium.