Achondroplasia, which affects around one in 20,000 babies, has just one approved treatment: BioMarin’s Voxzogo. However, new investigational treatments are vying to compete in the area. Achondroplasia ...

Children with achondroplasia seem to be more challenged in the anterior-posterior direction, which might be linked to an anterior-shifted pelvis. No difference was observed in bipedal static postural ...

Animal physiology is the scientific study of the life-supporting properties, functions and processes of animals or their parts. The discipline covers key homeostatic processes, such as the ...

AIM Achondroplasia can result in respiratory difficulty in early infancy. The aim of this study was to document lung growth during infancy, together with the cause of any cardiorespiratory and sleep ...

Biochemical and physiological mechanisms of adaptation of organisms to the marine environment. Special emphasis is on biological responses to temperature, salinity, carbon dioxide, pH and bicarbonate ...

A Brillouin spectroscopy study of the apple fruit cuticle indicates spatial micro-mechanical inhomogeneities exist between the periclinal and anticlinal regions.

The advent of agriculture 12,000 years ago increased the availability of affordable, energy-dense, palatable food, resulting in a substantial effect on the evolutionary physiology of hunger that ...

Purpose: Formal overnight polysomnography (PSG) is required to diagnose obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) in children with sleep disordered breathing (SDB). Most clinical guidelines do not recommend ...

People with COPD experience changes in their bodies. It starts with damage to the airways and tiny sacs in your lungs. That progresses to a wet cough and difficulty breathing, which can then get ...