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Oligonucleotide therapy mitigates disease in spinocerebellar ataxia type 3 mice.
Annals of neurology - 1 Jul 2018
McLoughlin Hayley S, Moore Lauren R, Chopra Ravi, Komlo Robert, McKenzie Megan, Blumenstein Kate G, Zhao Hien, Kordasiewicz Holly B, Shakkottai Vikram G, Paulson Henry L
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: Spinocerebellar ataxia type 3 (SCA3), also known as Machado-Joseph disease, is the most common dominantly inherited ataxia. Despite advances in understanding this CAG repeat/polyglutamine expansion disease, there are still no therapies to alter its progressive fatal course. Here, we investigate whether an antisense oligonucleotide (ASO) targeting the SCA3 disease gene, ATXN3, can prevent molecular,...
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