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Differential susceptibility to excitotoxic stress in YAC128 mouse models of Huntington disease between initiation and progression of disease.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience - 18 Feb 2009
Graham Rona K, Pouladi Mahmoud A, Joshi Prasad, Lu Ge, Deng Yu, Wu Nan-Ping, Figueroa Bryan E, Metzler Martina, André Véronique M, Slow Elizabeth J, Raymond Lynn, Friedlander Robert, Levine Michael S, Leavitt Blair R, Hayden Michael R
Abstract excerpt
Huntington disease (HD) is a neurodegenerative disorder caused by an expanded CAG tract in the HD gene. Polyglutamine expansion of huntingtin (htt) results in early, progressive loss of medium spiny striatal neurons, as well as cortical neurons that project to the striatum. Excitotoxicity has been postulated to play a key role in the selective vulnerability of striatal neurons in HD. Early excitotoxic...
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