Article
Levels of mutant huntingtin influence the phenotypic severity of Huntington disease in YAC128 mouse models.
Neurobiology of disease - 1 Feb 2006
Graham Rona K, Slow Elizabeth J, Deng Yu, Bissada Nagat, Lu Ge, Pearson Jacqueline, Shehadeh Jacqueline, Leavitt Blair R, Raymond Lynn A, Hayden Michael R
Abstract excerpt
Huntington disease (HD) is a devastating neuropsychiatric disease caused by expansion of a trinucleotide repeat (CAG) in the HD gene. Neuropathological changes include the appearance of N-terminal huntingtin fragments, decreased brain weight and apoptotic neuronal loss in a select subset of neurons located in the striatum. There is still controversy over whether homozygosity for the mutation in HD is associated...
Read the complete abstract on PubMedTopics
Share this publication in a Topic to start or enrich a Post.
