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Dysfunctional mitochondrial respiration in the striatum of the Huntington’s disease transgenic R6/2 mouse model
1 Jan 2013
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Metabolic dysfunction and mitochondrial involvement are recognised as part of the pathology in Huntington's Disease (HD). Post-mortem examinations of the striatum from end-stage HD patients have shown a decrease in the in vitro activity of complexes II, III and IV of the electron transport system (ETS). In different models of HD, evidence of enzyme defects have been reported in complex II and complex IV using...
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