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The absence of the aryl hydrocarbon receptor in the R6/1 transgenic mouse model of Huntington's disease improves the neurological phenotype.
Behavioural brain research - 25 Jun 2021
Angeles-López Quetzalli D, García-Lara Lucia, Aguirre-Pineda Nicolás, Castañeda-Arellano Rolando, Elizondo-Azuela Guillermo, Pérez-Severiano Francisca, Segovia José
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Huntington's disease (HD) is an inherited neurodegenerative disorder caused by an abnormal CAG repeat expansion in the huntingtin gene coding for a protein with an elongated polyglutamine sequence. HD patients present choreiform movements, which are caused by the loss of neurons in the striatum and cerebral cortex. Previous reports indicate that the absence of the aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR) protects mice...
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