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Intrajugular vein delivery of AAV9-RNAi prevents neuropathological changes and weight loss in Huntington's disease mice.
Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy - 1 Apr 2014
Dufour Brett D, Smith Catherine A, Clark Randall L, Walker Timothy R, McBride Jodi L
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Huntington's disease (HD) is a fatal neurological disorder caused by a CAG repeat expansion in the HTT gene, which encodes a mutant huntingtin protein (mHTT). The mutation confers a toxic gain of function on huntingtin, leading to widespread neurodegeneration and inclusion formation in many brain regions. Although the hallmark symptom of HD is hyperkinesia stemming from striatal degeneration, several other brain...
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