Animal models of kinky hair disease The mottled mouse provides an excellent animal model for Menkes kinky hair disease. [emedicine.com]

Etiology Menkes kinky hair syndrome is a genodermatosis. [5] The gene locus for Menkes kinky hair syndrome is in band Xq13.3. [emedicine.com]

[…] myelination due to copper deficiency. [5, 6] Danks' discovery in 1972 was based on his recognition that the unusual hair of infants with Menkes kinky hair disease appeared [emedicine.com]

Overview A rare genetic disorder characterized by kinky hair, tooth enamel and bone abnormalities. [checkorphan.org]

Curly/kinky hair is present at birth in around 80% of patients, but around half of these patients loose the hair phenotype by adolescence. [rarediseases.info.nih.gov]

It is characterized by curly and kinky hair at infancy that later straightens, absent mineralization of dental enamel, taurodontism and dental hypoplasia. [ipfs.io]

[…] more, well circumscribed areas of curly/kinky hair on the scalp in a non-black individual. [jemds.com]

kinky hair. [ijpd.in]

The three most common forms are wooly hair nevus, which is a condition where kinky hair grows in one or more clearly defined areas of the scalp apart from non-curly hair; [wisegeek.com]

• Metabolism of labeled Cu (67Cu) was studied in three patients with kinky hair disease (KHD). Labeled Cu was administered first intravenously and, later, orally. [jamanetwork.com]

MNK is characterized by kinky hair, growth failure, and deterioration of the nervous system. [icd.codes]

The condition is characterized by distinctive clinical features, including sparse and depigmented hair (“kinky hair”), failure to thrive, connective tissue disorders and severe [globenewswire.com]

The thing is - I went back home for holidays last summer and this time my hair did not go back to its normal state, it remained kinky - though the hair shedding definitely [alopeciaworld.com]

The frizzy, kinky hair appears in the frontal, temporal, and vertex regions (frontal, parietal, occipital) of the scalp. [hairstylessolutions.blogspot.com]

hair syndrome, Netherton syndrome, and Laron syndrome at the age of 2 years or later. [capillaroscopia.it]

Menkes disease is also known as copper transport disease, Menkes syndrome, kinky hair disease, Menkes kinky hair syndrome or steely hair disease. [wisegeek.com]

Hair Syndrome (40 %) ( Kinky Hair Disease, Menkes Disease,) Follicular Atrophoderma (40 %) Biotinidase Deficiency (40 %) Lichen Planopilaris (37 %) ( Acuminatus, Follicular [gulfdoctor.net]

Fingers, Palmoplantar Keratoderma And Clubbing,) Ehlers danlos Syndrome (40 %) ( Cutis Hyperelastica, Elastic Skin, India Rubber Skin,) Palmoplantar Keratoderma (40 %) Menkes Kinky [gulfdoctor.net]

In some cases, trichorrhexis nodosa may be caused by an underlying disorder such as Menkes’ kinky hair syndrome, hypothyroidism, or trichothiodystrophy. [strandandscience.com]

hair syndrome, Netherton syndrome, and Laron syndrome at the age of 2 years or later. [tumorealseno.info]

In some cases, trichorrhexis nodosa may be caused by an underlying disorder such as argininosuccinic aciduria, Menkes' kinky hair syndrome, Netherton's syndrome, hypothyroidism [en.wikipedia.org]

The three most common forms are wooly hair nevus, which is a condition where kinky hair grows in one or more clearly defined areas of the scalp apart from non-curly hair; [wisegeek.com]

kinky hair. [rarediseases.info.nih.gov]

Keywords: Woolly hair nevus,woolly hair, kinky hair How to cite this article: Venugopal V, Karthikeyan S, Gnanaraj P, Narasimhan M. Woolly hair nevus: A rare entity. [ijtrichology.com]

[…] by year, and whether "Menkes Kinky Hair Syndrome" was a major or minor topic of these publications. [profiles.umassmed.edu]

Menkes’s kinky hair syndrome: an inherited defect in copper absorption with widespread effects. Pediatrics. 1972 ; 50 : 188 – 201. 9. Alfred, JW, Aulino, J. [cambridge.org]

"Menkes Kinky Hair Syndrome" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). [profiles.umassmed.edu]

We report a 2 year-old boy with Menkes' kinky hair disease associated with a solitary huge bladder diverticulum. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

[…] enlargement (hypertrophy; carcinoma) ureterocele (large) urethral stricture congenital syndromes Diamond-Blackfan syndrome Ehlers-Danlos syndrome Menkes syndrome (a.k.a. kinky-hair [radiopaedia.org]

hair'' syndromes. [5] Congenital bladder diverticulums (CBD) are not frequent in children and an incidence of 1.7% was reported in a series of symptomatic patients evaluated [dx.doi.org]