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DNA vaccination against mutant huntingtin ameliorates the HDR6/2 diabetic phenotype.
Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy - 1 May 2003
Miller Todd W, Shirley Thomas L, Wolfgang William J, Kang Xiaowei, Messer Anne
Abstract excerpt
Immunization against extracellular neurotoxic proteins has shown promise in the treatment of several neurodegenerative disorders. We sought to determine whether immunization against mutant huntingtin, the intracellular protein that causes Huntington's disease (HD), could slow disease progression in the HD mouse model HDR6/2. DNA vaccination was used to present the mutant intracellular antigen to the immune system...
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