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Striatal neurons expressing full-length mutant huntingtin exhibit decreased N-cadherin and altered neuritogenesis.
Human molecular genetics - 15 Jun 2011
Reis Surya A, Thompson Morgan N, Lee Jong-Min, Fossale Elisa, Kim Hyung-Hwan, Liao James K, Moskowitz Michael A, Shaw Stanley Y, Dong Linda, Haggarty Stephen J, MacDonald Marcy E, Seong Ihn Sik
Abstract excerpt
The expanded CAG repeat that causes striatal cell vulnerability in Huntington's disease (HD) encodes a polyglutamine tract in full-length huntingtin that is correlated with cellular [ATP] and [ATP/ADP]. Since striatal neurons are vulnerable to energy deficit, we have investigated, in Hdh CAG knock-in mice and striatal cells, the hypothesis that decreased energetics may affect neuronal (N)-cadherin, a candidate...
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