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Visualization of prion-like transfer in Huntington's disease models.
Biochimica et biophysica acta. Molecular basis of disease - 1 Mar 2017
Jansen Anne H P, Batenburg Kevin L, Pecho-Vrieseling Eline, Reits Eric A
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Most neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Huntington's disease are hallmarked by aggregate formation of disease-related proteins. In various of these diseases transfer of aggregation-prone proteins between neurons and between neurons and glial cells has been shown, thereby initiating aggregation in neighboring cells and so propagating the disease phenotype. Whereas this prion-like...
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