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SYSTEM
Organization
Muscle Diseases
What causes them:
Muscle Diseases
Effects:
neurons can become unhealthy or die, and communication between your
nervous system and muscles breaks down
muscles can begin to waste away
can sometimes affect heart function and ability to breathe
most disorders have no cure
there are hundreds of diseases/disorders with different causes and
outcomes
ex: ALS is a nerve cell disease in the spinal cord and brain, and the muscles
have no nourishment which leads to the muscles wasting away
References:
muscular system functions: http://www.innerbody.com/image/musfov.html#fulldescription
muscle diseases: https://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/muscledisorders.html
http://www.alsa.org/about-als/what-is-als.html?referrer=https://www.google.com/