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Corticostriatal synaptic function in mouse models of Huntington's disease: early effects of huntingtin repeat length and protein load.
The Journal of physiology - 15 Dec 2007
Milnerwood Austen J, Raymond Lynn A
Abstract excerpt
Huntington's disease (HD) is an autosomal dominant, late onset, neurodegenerative disease characterized by motor deficits and dementia that is caused by expansion of a CAG repeat in the HD gene. Clinical manifestations result from selective neuronal degeneration of predominantly GABAergic striatal medium-sized spiny neurons (MSNs). A growing number of studies demonstrate that personality, mood and cognitive...
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