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Environmental stimulation increases survival in mice transgenic for exon 1 of the Huntington's disease gene.
Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society - 1 Sept 2000
Carter R J, Hunt M J, Morton A J
Abstract excerpt
Mice transgenic for the first exon of the human Huntington's disease (HD) gene carrying an expanded CAG repeat expansion (R6/2 line) develop a progressive neurologic phenotype with symptoms resembling those seen in HD. The overt symptoms of R6/2 mice worsen with age, resulting in a rapid decline in health and premature death between 13 and 18 weeks of age. In this study, we characterized the onset and progression...
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