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Huntington's disease and Group I metabotropic glutamate receptors.
Molecular neurobiology - 1 Feb 2011
Ribeiro Fabiola M, Pires Rita G W, Ferguson Stephen S G
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Huntington's disease (HD) is an autosomal dominant neurodegenerative disorder characterized by involuntary body movement, cognitive impairment and psychiatric disturbance. A polyglutamine expansion in the amino-terminal region of the huntingtin (htt) protein is the genetic cause of HD. Htt protein interacts with a wide variety of proteins, and htt mutation causes cell signaling alterations in various...
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