Severe Combined Immunodeficiency

Question: What is SCID (Severe Combined Immunodeficiency)? what is Severe Combined Immunodeficiency? In your own words, don't copy and paste, the words on Wikipedia and the SCID Home Page is to sophisticated for me to understand so please dumb it down for me :D P.S. In your own words! :]

Answer: It's an immunodeficiency disorder, but the difference from something like AIDS is that SCID is a genetic condition you're born with. The immune system is seriously crippled since birth--both B and T cells are missing or disabled. The result is that a child with SCID cannot fight off any infections, and needs a lot of medical treatment to survive past infancy.

Question: does anyone have or know of a baby with Severe Combined Immunodeficiency?If so what is the outlook? I just want an out look answer based on if you guys know a child that has had this disease.

Answer: SCID babies need bone marrow transplants to help kick start their immune systems don't they? There was a television program about that last night. I think the prognosis is getting better now.

Question: why is Severe Combined Immunodeficiency called "bubble boy"? why is Severe Combined Immunodeficiency called bubble boy yoko o whats the website

Answer: Because they technically have to live in a "bubble". Check out this website, it will explain a lot about where the name came from (an actual boy). It became known as "bubble boy disease" when a boy lived for years inside a protective bubble because he had no immune system.

Question: Explain how gene theraphy would be used to treat SCID (severe combined immunodeficiency syndrome)? please i alredy learned this in my school but i still want it fresh in my mind

Answer: Here is the link to an authentic scientific article in Pubmed Central, US National Library of Medicine: Gene therapy for severe combined immunodeficiency: are we there yet? http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/article…

Question: i need pictures of severe combined immunodeficiency disorder..10 points!? i need lots of pictures of anything related to this disorder. ive looked many places, but i barely found any. please help!

Answer: Try Google Images... http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=… That has photos, graphics, etc. Hopefully there's enough there to at least get you started - good luck!

Question: pictures of severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) ?

Answer: SCID is a genetic disorder and people born with this condition do not look any different than a normal person.

Question: Select the correct statement about immunodeficiency? A.Severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) disease is an acquired condition. B.The causative agent in acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) is a virus that recognizes CD4 proteins. C.Hodgkin's disease is a hereditary immunodeficiency found in children. D.The most common form of immunodeficiency is graft versus host (GVH) disease.

Answer: B. SCID is a condition that people are born with Hodgkin's lymphoma is a cancer (not directly inherited, only the proto onco genes are) GHV is not the most common form of immunodefiency

Question: What chromosome or location on a chromosome is SCID associated with? What chromosome or location on a chromosome is SCID associated with? SCID mean Severe Combined Immunodeficiency

Answer: All forms of SCID are inherited: X-linked SCID results in a mutation in the interleukin 2 receptor gamma (IL2RG) gene. A mutation in JAK3, located on chromosome 19, can also result in SCID. In another form of SCID, there is a lack of the enzyme adenosine deaminase (ADA), coded for by a gene on chromosome 20.

Question: Symptoms of this autoimmune disease are directly due to the immune system attacking nervous tissue? symptoms of this autoimmune disease are directly due to the immune system attacking nervous tissue. a. systemic lupus b. rheumatoid arthritis c. severe combined immunodeficiency disease (SCID) d. Type 1 diabetes e. multiple sclerosis

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Question: Explain how gene therapy would be used to treat SCID? Explain how gene therapy would be used to treat SCID(severe combined immunodeficiency syndrome.) I have read this in my book and I am not fully understanding this! Please help

Answer: In 1993 Andrew Gobea was born with severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID). Genetic screening before birth showed that he had SCID. Blood was removed from Andrew's placenta and umbilical cord immediately after birth, containing stem cells. The allele that codes for ADA was obtained and was inserted into a retrovirus. Retroviruses and stem cells were mixed, after which they entered and inserted the gene into the stem cells' chromosomes. Stem cells containing the working ADA gene were injected into Andrew's blood system via a vein. Injections of the ADA enzyme were also given weekly. For four years T-cells (white blood cells), produced by stem cells, made ADA enzymes using the ADA gene. After four years more treatment was needed. The success of a multi-center trial for treating children with SCID (severe combined immune deficiency or "bubble boy" disease) held from 2000 and 2002 was questioned when two of the ten children treated at the trial's Paris center developed a leukemia-like condition. Clinical trials were halted temporarily in 2002, but resumed after regulatory review of the protocol in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Italy, and Germany. Good luck!