How Huntington’s disease affects different neurons
CABRIDGE, MA -- In patients with Huntington’s disease, neurons in a part of the brain called the striatum are among ...
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UC Irvine-led study links metabolism changes in certain brain cells to Huntington’s disease
Irvine, Calif., Dec. 21, 2022 — A research team led by the University of California, Irvine has linked the mutation ...
CRISPR technology improves Huntington’s disease symptoms in models
Huntington’s disease (HD) is a neurological disorder that causes progressive loss of movement, coordination and cognitive function. It is caused ...
Discovery of the causes of brain dysfunction in patients with Huntington’s disease
Huntington’s disease (HD) is a hereditary brain disease caused by a mutation in the huntingtin gene. HD is a neurodegenerative ...
Establishing a novel strategy to tackle Huntington’s disease
Through an international joint research effort involving ProQR Therapeutics of the Netherlands, Université Grenoble Alpes of France, and KTH Royal ...
Brain’s support cells may hold key to new Huntington’s treatments
Huntington’s disease – a hereditary and fatal genetic disorder – has long been considered a neuronal disease due to the ...
New system that defines Huntington’s Disease will ‘revolutionise’ drug trials
A novel staging framework that assesses the progression of Huntington’s disease (HD), similar to the way cancer is staged 0 ...
Medication benefits patients with Huntington’s disease-associated chorea
A new drug has proven beneficial in treating a movement disorder commonly associated with Huntington’s disease, according to a recent ...
Huntington’s disease: Astrocytes to the rescue !
Huntington's disease1 is caused by a mutation in the Huntingtin gene, a protein necessary for the proper functioning of several ...
UCLA Health team develops new mouse model to shed light on the mystery surrounding Huntington’s disease onset and improve the targeting of potential therapies
Researchers at the Jane and Terry Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA and the David Geffen School ...
Gene Therapy for the Treatment of Huntington’s Disease
Gene therapy targeting the messenger RNA (mRNA) of the mutated huntingtin gene (HTT) can provide long-lasting therapeutic benefit in Huntington’s ...
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