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Dopamine enhances motor and neuropathological consequences of polyglutamine expanded huntingtin.
FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology - 1 Dec 2006
Cyr Michel, Sotnikova Tatyana D, Gainetdinov Raul R, Caron Marc G
Abstract excerpt
An expansion in the CAG repeat of the IT15 (huntingtin) gene underlies the development of Huntington's disease (HD), but the basis for the specific vulnerability of dopamine-receptive striatal neurons remains unclear. To examine the potential role of the dopamine system in the emergence of pathological conditions in HD, we generated a double mutant mouse strain with both enhanced dopamine transmission and...
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