According to FutureWise analysis the market for bulbospinal muscular atrophy drugs is expected to register a CAGR of 12.90% from 2023-2031.
Bulbospinal muscle atrophy (also known as Kennedy's Disease) is a condition in which a bulb-like structure develops in the lower brain. This contains nerve cells that control muscles in the mouth, throat, and face. This condition is caused by the loss of nerve cells in both the brain stem (brain stem) and the spinal cord. It causes a stoppage in messages between the brain and muscles to allow for movement. Patients with this condition have trouble speaking, standing, walking, and controlling their head movements. Patients can also have difficulty swallowing or breathing. This condition is mainly seen in men. It does not affect women. The low testosterone levels in the body protect them, which accounts for the sex-limited inheritance of the disorder. This condition is caused by mutations in the Androgen Receptor gene. It is inherited as an x-linked recessive. Research continues, but as with many genetic disorders, there is no cure. Due to its endocrine manifestations, SBMA patients may experience partial symptoms of Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome. (AIS), along with neuromuscular degeneration.
SBMA can also be linked to neurodegenerative diseases such as Huntington's Disease. The age at which the disease begins is between 30-60 years old. Initial symptoms include fatigue, muscle twitching and muscle cramps. As the disease progresses, patients also experience weakness and wasting in their limbs and bulbar muscles. This manifests as dysarthria and dysphonia, hanging mouth, tongue wasting and chewing difficulties, and impaired mobility. The intellectual decline is very rare. Some patients may not be able to swallow or breathe in the final stages of the disease. Other non-neurological signs include gynecomastia and hypogonadism, which can lead to infertility or impotence, and in rare cases dupuytren’s contracture, or even groin hernia. Bulbar muscles are supplied by motor nerves in the brain stem that controls swallowing, speech and other functions. Lower motor neurons are the ones in the brainstem or spinal cord that supply muscles directly. Loss of lower motor neurons leads to weakness or wasting of the muscle. If the bottom of the foot gets scraped, the toes will bend down. An abnormal response would be for the toes to move upwards.
This indicates a problem with the higher-level (upper), motor neurons. Early symptoms include weakness in the tongue and mouth muscles, fasciculations and slowly increasing weakness in the limb muscles. Although the disease progresses slowly, neuromuscular management can be very supportive. However, it can eventually cause severe disability. Medical history, clinical examination, elevated creatine, testosterone, progesterone and follicle-stimulating hormone are all used to diagnose the condition. Other factors include reduced nerve conduction speeds or decreased nerve action potential amplitude, acute and chronic denervation, electromyography, documentation of the mutation, and re-innervation. Hereditary spastic paraplegia, spinocerebellar and other motor neuron diseases are possible diagnoses (see these terms), myopathies, neuropathies as well as lead or aluminum poisoning and cervical spondylosis.
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