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Nursing Standard, 2004 Huntington's disease is a complex degenerative disorder that affects the central nervous system. Although it is a rare condition, nurses are ideally placed to assess and manage patients with the disease, while also providing information and support to family members.
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Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology, 2011 Huntington's disease (HD) is the most common inherited neurodegenerative disease and is characterized by uncontrolled excessive motor movements and cognitive and emotional deficits. The mutation responsible for HD leads to an abnormally long polyglutamine (polyQ) expansion in the huntingtin (Htt) protein, which confers one or more toxic functions to ...
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The Many Facets of Unawareness in Huntington Disease
Tremor and Other Hyperkinetic Movements, 2014 Background: Unawareness or diminished awareness is present when a patient's perception of obvious disease manifestations and impact differ from that of observers such as clinicians or family members.Methods: We examined studies that specifically ...
Elizabeth McCusker, Clement T. Loy
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Suicidal behaviour in huntington disease
European Psychiatry, 2021 Introduction Huntington Disease (HD) is a genetic, progressive neurodegenerative disorder. Its clinical features include motor dysfunction, cognitive impairments, and psychiatric symptoms.
R. Mota Freitas, M.T. Valadas
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The phasor-FLIM fingerprints reveal shifts from OXPHOS to enhanced glycolysis in Huntington Disease. [PDF]
, 2016 Huntington disease (HD) is an autosomal neurodegenerative disorder caused by the expansion of Polyglutamine (polyQ) in exon 1 of the Huntingtin protein. Glutamine repeats below 36 are considered normal while repeats above 40 lead to HD.
Digman, Michelle A +3 more
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The Unfolded Protein Response and its potential role in Huntington's disease [PDF]
, 2012 Huntington's disease (HD) is a progressive, neurodegenerative disease with fatal outcome. Although the disease-causing gene (huntingtin) has been known for some time, the exact cause of neuronal cell death is still unknown.
Kamesh Ayasolla +2 more
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Systemic Air Embolism Associated with Pleural Pigtail Chest Tube Insertion
Case Reports in Pulmonology, 2016 Pleural pigtail catheter placement is associated with many complications including pneumothorax, hemorrhage, and chest pain. Air embolism is a known but rare complication of pleural pigtail catheter insertion and has a high risk of occurrence with ...
Emad Alkhankan +3 more
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Brain Growth in Children at Risk for Huntington Disease
Pediatric Neurology Briefs, 2012 Researchers at the University of Iowa and Washington University, St Louis, MO, studied the effect of the mutant Huntington gene (mHTT) on measures of growth in children at risk for Huntington disease (HD).
J Gordon Millichap
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Basal Ganglia and Thalamic Infarction
Pediatric Neurology Briefs, 1997 The signs, symptoms, and radiographic findings in 36 children, newborns to 13 years of age, with ischemic infarctions of the basal ganglia, internal capsule, or thalamus are reported from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX.
J Gordon Millichap
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Biomarkers for Huntington's disease: an update [PDF]
, 2012 Huntington's disease (HD) is a devastating autosomal-dominant neurodegenerative condition caused by a CAG repeat expansion in the gene encoding huntingtin which is characterised by progressive motor impairment, cognitive decline and neuropsychiatric ...
Scahill, RI, Tabrizi, SJ, Wild, EJ
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