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Question: How does menkes disease and/or wilsons disease affect the function of the cell membrane? Im doing a biology assignment and I cant find the answers anywhere for these questions... How does menkes disease and/or wilsons disease affect the function of the cell membrane??
Answer: http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/article…
Question: I need some opinion on Menkes disease!!? My science Prop told me to find some but I am very confused like what should I put.
Answer: I guess by "Opinion" your science professor wants to know what you think about it. Here is a synopsis of Menkes disease.
Menkes disease (also called the kinky hair disease or Menke's kinky hair syndrome) is a disorder that affects copper levels in the body. It is characterized by sparse and coarse hair, growth failure, and deterioration of the nervous system. Onset of Menkes syndrome typically begins during infancy. Signs and symptoms of this disorder include weak muscle tone (hypotonia), sagging facial features, seizures, mental retardation, and developmental delay. The patients have brittle hair and metaphyseal widening. In rare cases, symptoms begin later in childhood and are less severe. It is a X-linked recessive disorder, therefore males have the disease, while females are carriers. It was originally described by Menkes et al in 1962.
Occipital horn syndrome (sometimes called X-linked cutis laxa), is a mild form of Menkes syndrome that begins in early to middle childhood. It is characterized by calcium deposits in a bone at the base of the skull (occipital bone), coarse hair, and loose skin and joints.
Question: Is turning down therapy equipment because the prognosis that the doctor doesnt know much about is "bad"? We wanted therapy equipment for my son who has menkes disease and the doctor the therapists asked to write for it said no because from what she has read the prognosis wasn't good and basically he will die too soon to get enough use out of it... there is currently a 10 year old with this disease 11 in january... what can i do?
Answer: Find another doctor
