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Rhes suppression enhances disease phenotypes in Huntington's disease mice.
Journal of Huntington's disease - 1 Jan 2014
Lee John H, Sowada Matthew J, Boudreau Ryan L, Aerts Andrea M, Thedens Daniel R, Nopoulos Peg, Davidson Beverly L
Abstract excerpt
In Huntington's disease (HD) mutant HTT is ubiquitously expressed yet the striatum undergoes profound early degeneration. Cell culture studies suggest that a striatal-enriched protein, Rhes, may account for this vulnerability. We investigated the therapeutic potential of silencing Rhes in vivo using inhibitory RNAs (miRhes). While Rhes suppression was tolerated in wildtype mice, it failed to improve rotarod...
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