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SCID:
Severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) represents a group of rare, sometimes fatal, congenital disorders characterized by little or no immune response. The defining ... more about SCID.
SCID: Major failure of the immune system, usually genetic.
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Clinical Trials for SCID
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Some of the clinical trials listed on ClinicalTrials.gov for SCID include:
- Allogeneic Bone Marrow Transplantation in Patients With Primary Immunodeficiencies - This study is no longer recruiting patients (Current: 23 Nov 2006) - anti-thymocyte globulin,busulfan,cyclophosphamide,cyclosporine,etoposide,methotrexate,methylprednisolone,prednisone
- Pilot Study of Allogeneic Bone Marrow Transplantation Plus Cyclosporine and Mycophenolate Mofetil to Induce Mixed Hematopoietic Chimerism in Patients With Primary T-Cell Immunodeficiency Disorders - This study is currently recruiting patients (Current: 23 Nov 2006) - cyclosporine,mycophenolate mofetil
- Transplantation of Hematopoietic Cells in Children With Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Syndrome - This study is currently recruiting patients (Current: 23 Nov 2006) - Filgrastim,Alemtuzumab
- Gene Transfer Therapy for Severe Combined Immunodeficieny Disease (SCID) Due to Adenosine Deaminase (ADA) Deficiency: A Natural History Study - This study has been completed (Current: 23 Nov 2006) - ADA PBSC,ADA Umbilical Cord Blood Cells,Transduced Lymphocytes
- Gene Transfer Therapy for Severe Combined Immunodeficieny Disease (SCID) Due to Adenosine Deaminase (ADA) Deficiency - This study is currently recruiting patients (Current: 23 Nov 2006) - BB-IND 8556
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SCID: Broader Related Topics
Types of SCID
Types of SCID
- SCID with ADA deficiency - X-linked common type
- SCID from IL-2 receptor gamma chain deficiency - X-linked common type
- X-linked SCID
- MHC Class II Deficiency (Bare Lymphocyte Syndrome)
- DiGeorge syndrome
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Article Excerpts about SCID
Genes and Disease by the National Center for Biotechnology (Excerpt)
Severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) represents a group of rare, sometimes fatal, congenital disorders characterized by little or no immune response. The defining feature of SCID, commonly known as "bubble boy" disease, is a defect in the specialized white blood cells (B- and T-lymphocytes) that defend us from infection by viruses, bacteria and fungi.
(Source: Genes and Disease by the National Center for Biotechnology)
Primary Immune Deficiency, NIAID Fact Sheet: NIAID (Excerpt)
Approximately one in
every million people develop SCID, a group of inherited disorders.
People with SCID have severe abnormalities in both B and T cell
immunity. (Source: excerpt from Primary Immune Deficiency, NIAID Fact Sheet: NIAID)
Definitions of SCID:
X-linked or autosomal recessive disorder characterized by defects of both humoral and cell mediated immunity, resulting in low or absent antibody levels, leukopenia, marked susceptibility to infections, and early death.--2004
- (Source - Diseases Database)
A congenital disease affecting T cells that can result from a mutation in any one of several different genes; children with it are susceptible to infectious disease; if untreated it is lethal within the first year or two of life
- (Source - WordNet 2.1)
SCID is listed as a "rare disease" by the Office of
Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health
(NIH). This means that SCID, or a subtype of SCID,
affects less than 200,000 people in the US population.
Source - National Institutes of Health (NIH)
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