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[Huntington's disease: cellular and molecular basis of pathology].
Zhurnal vysshei nervnoi deiatelnosti imeni I P Pavlova - 1 Jan 2000
Korzhova V V, Artamonov D N, Vlasova O L, Bezprozvannyĭ I B
Abstract excerpt
Huntington's disease (HD) is an inherited autosomal dominant neurodegenerative disorder caused by a polyQ expansion (>36 glutamine repeats) in Huntingtin (Htt) protein. It is believed that dysfunction of corticostriatal system is one of the main pathological events. Special attention is paid to synaptic dysfunction of transmission between cortical and striatal neurons. This review focuses on modern concepts of...
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