Article
Mouse polyQ database: a new online resource for research using mouse models of neurodegenerative diseases.
Molecular brain - 29 Oct 2015
Szlachcic Wojciech J, Switonski Pawel M, Kurkowiak Małgorzata, Wiatr Kalina, Figiel Maciej
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The polyglutamine (polyQ) family of disorders comprises 9 genetic diseases, including several types of ataxia and Huntington disease. Approximately two decades of investigation and the creation of more than 130 mouse models of polyQ disorders have revealed many similarities between these diseases. The disorders share common mutation types, neurological characteristics and certain aspects of...
Topics
- Animals
- Databases, Protein
- Disease Models, Animal
- Internet
- Mice
- Neurodegenerative Diseases
- Peptides
- Phenotype
- Research
- Search Engine
- User-Computer Interface
