Huntington’s disease is a neurodegenerative disease caused by the expansion mutation of a cytosine-adenine-guanine triplet in the exon 1 of the HTT gene which is responsible for the production of the huntingtin (Htt)...
Support for N.S.C.and L.M.B.provided by the Huntington’s Disease Society of America Berman/Topper HD Career Development Fellowship.Project operational support for E.J.W.,B.R.L.,and M.R.H.provided by F.Hoffmann-La Roche.Additional operational support for N.S.C.and M.R.H.provided by a Bev Hartig Huntington’s Disease Foundation grant.Funding sources were not involved in the design of experiments,collection and measurement of samples,or analysis and interpretation of the data presented herein.
Background Therapeutic approaches aimed at lowering toxic mutant huntingtin(mHTT)levels in the brain can reverse disease phenotypes in animal models of Huntington’s disease(HD)and are currently being evaluated in cli...
We reviewed recent major clinical trials with investigational drugs for the treatment of subjects with neurodegenerative diseases caused by inheritance of gene mutations or associated with genetic risk factors.Specifi...
A review of recent animal models of Huntington’s disease showed many microRNAs had altered expression levels in the striatum and cerebral cortex,and which were mostly downregulated.Among the altered microRNAs were mi...
This work was supported by the MINECO grant RTC-2015-3364 to EM and IGR cofounded by the European Development Regional Fund in the Framework of the Operative Program“Reinforcement of research,technological development and innovation”;IGR was also supported by grant PI15-00310 and PI18-00941 cofinanced by the European Development Regional Fund“A way to achieve Europe”;EM by the MINECO grant SAF2017-87701-R;JA and JPL were supported by FPI and FPU program fellowship(Ministerio de Educación,Cultura y Deporte)and DGR by Fundación Tatiana de Guzmán el Bueno.BP is a predoctoral fellow supported by the i-PFIS program,Instituto de Salud CarlosⅢ(IFI15/00022,European Social Fund“Investing in your future”).
Background:The administration of certain cannabinoids provides neuroprotection in models of neurodegenerative diseases by acting through various cellular and molecular mechanisms.Many cannabinoid actions in the nervou...
Huntington's disease (HD) is an inherited autosomal dominant neurodegenerative disease characterized by pro- gressive motor deficits, cognitive decline, and psychiatric symptoms. It is caused by a pathological expa...
supported by Macao Foundation(Project code:0212);FDCT grant from the Science and Technology Development Fund of Macao(Project code:076/2011/A3)
OBJECTIVE To investigate the autophagic effect of the compounds from the Chinese medicinal herbs,Radix polygalae as a potential neuroprotective agent that enhances the clearance of mutant Huntingtin andα-synuclein in...
Huntington’s Disease(HD)is a genetically dominant trinucleotide repeat disorder resulting from CAG repeats within the Huntingtin(HTT)gene exceeding a normal range(>36 CAGs).Symptoms of the disease manifest in middle ...
Acknowledgements The study was supported by the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (2014AA02502) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC 31371421 and 31422024).
Aim: The accumulation of disease-causing proteins is a common hallmark of many neurodegenerative disorders. Measuring the degradation of such proteins using high-throughput-compatible assays is highly desired for the...
supported by Ministero dell’Istruzione,dell’Università e della Ricerca of Italy (PRIN 20109MXHMR_001);Associazione Italiana Ricerca sul Cancro (AIRC,IG#15221)
Neurodegenerative diseases(NDs)include more than 600 disease entities that are characterized by loss of specific neurons located in anatomically related functional areas which progressively lead to motor and cogniti...