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Hsp40 gene therapy exerts therapeutic effects on polyglutamine disease mice via a non-cell autonomous mechanism.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2012
Popiel H Akiko, Takeuchi Toshihide, Fujita Hiromi, Yamamoto Kazuhiro, Ito Chiyomi, Yamane Hiroshi, Muramatsu Shin-ichi, Toda Tatsushi, Wada Keiji, Nagai Yoshitaka
Abstract excerpt
The polyglutamine (polyQ) diseases such as Huntington's disease (HD), are neurodegenerative diseases caused by proteins with an expanded polyQ stretch, which misfold and aggregate, and eventually accumulate as inclusion bodies within neurons. Molecules that inhibit polyQ protein misfolding/aggregation, such as Polyglutamine Binding Peptide 1 (QBP1) and molecular chaperones, have been shown to exert therapeutic...
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