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Minocycline for Huntington’s disease: An open label study
11 Mar 2003
Abstract excerpt
Despite advances in understanding the pathogenesis of Huntington’s disease (HD), there is no effective treatment. In the HD transgenic mouse, expression of a dominant-negative caspase-1 mutant extended survival and delayed the onset of symptoms, suggesting that caspase-1 is crucial in HD pathogenesis.1 In fact, the caspase inhibitor minocycline delayed disease progression and extended survival by 14% in the HD...
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