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Cerebellar soluble mutant ataxin-3 level decreases during disease progression in Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 3 mice.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2013
Nguyen Huu Phuc, Hübener Jeannette, Weber Jonasz Jeremiasz, Grueninger Stephan, Riess Olaf, Weiss Andreas
Abstract excerpt
Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 3 (SCA3), also known as Machado-Joseph disease, is an autosomal dominantly inherited neurodegenerative disease caused by an expanded polyglutamine stretch in the ataxin-3 protein. A pathological hallmark of the disease is cerebellar and brainstem atrophy, which correlates with the formation of intranuclear aggregates in a specific subset of neurons. Several studies have demonstrated...
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