Article
Pharmacological Therapies for Machado-Joseph Disease.
Advances in experimental medicine and biology - 1 Jan 2018
Duarte-Silva Sara, Maciel Patrícia
Abstract excerpt
Machado-Joseph disease (MJD), also known as Spinocerebellar Ataxia type 3 (SCA3), is the most common autosomal dominant ataxia worldwide. MJD integrates a large group of disorders known as polyglutamine diseases (polyQ). To date, no effective treatment exists for MJD and other polyQ diseases. Nevertheless, researchers are making efforts to find treatment possibilities that modify the disease course or alleviate...
Topics
- Humans
- Machado-Joseph Disease
- Mitochondrial Diseases
- Mutation
- Neuroimaging
- Oxidative Stress
- Peptides
- Proteolysis
