Article
Trehalose alleviates the phenotype of Machado-Joseph disease mouse models.
Journal of translational medicine - 9 Apr 2020
Santana Magda M, Paixão Susana, Cunha-Santos Janete, Silva Teresa Pereira, Trevino-Garcia Allyson, Gaspar Laetitia S, Nóbrega Clévio, Nobre Rui Jorge, Cavadas Cláudia, Greif Hagar, Pereira de Almeida Luís
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Machado-Joseph disease (MJD), also known as spinocerebellar ataxia type 3, is the most common of the dominantly inherited ataxias worldwide and is characterized by mutant ataxin-3 aggregation and neuronal degeneration. There is no treatment available to block or delay disease progression. In this work we investigated whether trehalose, a natural occurring disaccharide widely used in food and cosmetic...
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