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Treatment with the MAO-A inhibitor clorgyline elevates monoamine neurotransmitter levels and improves affective phenotypes in a mouse model of Huntington disease.
Experimental neurology - 1 Apr 2016
Garcia-Miralles Marta, Ooi Jolene, Ferrari Bardile Costanza, Tan Liang Juin, George Maya, Drum Chester L, Lin Rachel Yanping, Hayden Michael R, Pouladi Mahmoud A
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Abnormal monoamine oxidase A and B (MAO-A/B) activity and an imbalance in monoamine neurotransmitters have been suggested to underlie the pathobiology of depression, a major psychiatric symptom observed in patients with neurodegenerative diseases, such as Huntington disease (HD). Increased MAO-A/B activity has been observed in brain tissue from patients with HD and in human and rodent HD neural cells. Using the...
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