What happens in FOP is children continue to make new pieces of the skeleton after birth, ... The signal is not just 'make more bone.'
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These people are literally imprisoned in a second skeleton, ... It transforms muscles, tendons, ligaments -- connective tissues become sheathed in bone. It spans joints, locking them into place and rendering movement completely impossible.Fred Kaplan
Life expectancy for people with FOP is tremendously variable, ... The average life span is mid-40s, but it ranges from the teens to the 80s.
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That can send the condition into a wild state of flare-up.
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Even if the answer to FOP is only for FOP, it wouldn't in any way dissuade me from working on it, ... I would hope we can make a difference for these kids (and find) medications, treatment or therapy that would enable them to prevent a joint from turning into bone or restore movement to some joint already frozen.
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With a few notable exceptions, You'd think that we were still fighting the Soviet Union and that the Cold War were still raging on.
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