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[Periodontitis determining the onset and progression of Huntington's disease: review of the literature].
Medwave - 27 Oct 2015
Rodríguez Coyago María Lourdes, Sánchez Temiño Victoria Emilia
Abstract excerpt
Huntington's disease is a neurodegenerative disorder caused by the expansion of a CAG triplet in the huntingtin gene. It presents with physical, cognitive and psychiatric impairment at different ages in the adult, and has a fatal prognosis. Other than the number of triplet repetitions, there seem to be other factors that explain the onset of this disease at an earlier age. It is well known that neuroinflammation...
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