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How young people find out about their family history of Huntington's disease [PDF]
, 2009 Family communication about adult-onset hereditary illness can be problematic, leaving some relatives inadequately informed or ignorant of their risk.
Forrest Keenan, Karen +4 more
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Journal of Neuroscience, 1999 Transgenic mice expressing exon 1 of the human Huntington’s disease (HD) gene carrying a 141–157 CAG repeat (line R6/2) develop a progressive neurological phenotype with motor symptoms resembling those seen in HD. We have characterized the motor deficits
Rebecca J. Carter +8 more
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Identification of hepta-histidine as a candidate drug for Huntington's disease by in silico-in vitro- in vivo-integrated screens of chemical libraries. [PDF]
, 2016 We identified drug seeds for treating Huntington's disease (HD) by combining in vitro single molecule fluorescence spectroscopy, in silico molecular docking simulations, and in vivo fly and mouse HD models to screen for inhibitors of abnormal ...
Chen, Xigui +17 more
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Experimental and Molecular Medicine, 2019 Huntington’s disease: Diabetes drug limits disease-related degeneration in mice Metformin, an existing drug for diabetes, shows promise in alleviating symptoms of early Huntington’s disease in mouse models. Huntington’s disease is a genetic disorder that
Ana Sanchis +6 more
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Reversal of neuropathology and motor dysfunction in a conditional model of Huntington's disease.
Cell, 2000 Neurodegenerative disorders like Huntington's disease (HD) are characterized by progressive and putative irreversible clinical and neuropathological symptoms, including neuronal protein aggregates.
Ai Yamamoto, J. Lucas, R. Hen
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Suppression of polyglutamine toxicity by a Drosophila homolog of myeloid leukemia factor 1 [PDF]
, 2002 The toxicity of an abnormally long polyglutamine [poly(Q)] tract within specific proteins is the molecular lesion shared by Huntington's disease (HD) and several other hereditary neurodegenerative disorders.
Benzer, Seymour, Kazemi-Esfarjani, Parsa
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Quantification of mutant huntingtin protein in cerebrospinal fluid from Huntington's disease patients. [PDF]
, 2015 Quantification of disease-associated proteins in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) has been critical for the study and treatment of several neurodegenerative disorders; however, mutant huntingtin protein (mHTT), the cause of Huntington's disease (HD), is at ...
Andreas Weiss +16 more
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Diagnosing Juvenile Huntington’s Disease: An Explorative Study among Caregivers of Affected Children
Brain Sciences, 2020 Objective: To investigate the reasons for the diagnostic delay of juvenile Huntington’s disease patients in the Netherlands. Methods: This study uses interpretative phenomenological analysis.
Mayke Oosterloo +3 more
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Huntingtons sykdom - Symptombeskrivelse i faglitteratur og skjønnlitteratur [PDF]
, 2010 Huntington’s disease is a genetic neurodegenerative disorder that affects a person’s body, mind and behavior. The disease has been portrayed in several works of fiction.
Moldekleiv, Hanna Helena
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