Molecular aspects of Huntington's disease

HW Walling, JJ Baldassare… - Journal of neuroscience …, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
Huntington's disease (HD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease striking principally
medium spiny GABAergic neurons of the caudate nucleus of the basal ganglia. It affects …

Differential expression of normal and mutant Huntington's disease gene alleles

F Persichetti, L Carlee, PW Faber, SM McNeil… - Neurobiology of …, 1996 - Elsevier
Huntingtin expression was examined by Western blot and immunoprecipitation studies of
lymphoblastoid cell lines from Huntington's disease (HD) homozygotes, heterozygotes, and …

Recent advances in understanding the pathogenesis of Huntington's disease

PH Reddy, M Williams, DA Tagle - Trends in neurosciences, 1999 - cell.com
Huntington's disease (HD) is an autosomal, dominantly inherited neurodegenerative
disorder that is characterized by abnormal involuntary movements (chorea), intellectual …

The early cellular pathology of Huntington's disease

XJ Li - Molecular neurobiology, 1999 - Springer
Huntington's disease (HD) is an inherited neurodegenerative disorder that affects about one
in 10,000 individuals in North America. The genetic defect responsible for the disease is an …

Dysfunction of wild-type huntingtin in Huntington disease

E Cattaneo - Physiology, 2003 - journals.physiology.org
Huntingtin is the protein involved in Huntington disease (HD), an inherited
neurodegenerative disease. Research activities have focused on the abnormal functions of …

Huntington disease and the huntingtin protein

Z Zheng, MI Diamond - Progress in molecular biology and translational …, 2012 - Elsevier
Huntington disease (HD) is a devastating neurodegenerative disease that derives from CAG
repeat expansion in the huntingtin gene. The clinical syndrome consists of progressive …

The neuropathology of Huntington's disease

CA Gutekunst, F Norflus… - Oxford Monographs on …, 2002 - books.google.com
This chapter reviews the neuropathology of Huntington's disease (HD) and examines the
relationships between the neurodegenerative findings and recent advances in our …

Huntington disease: advances in molecular and cell biology

AL Jones, JD Wood, PS Harper - Journal of inherited metabolic …, 1997 - Wiley Online Library
Huntington disease is an inherited neurodegeneration, for which the associated mutation
was isolated in 1993. The mutation is an expansion of a CAG trinucleotide repeat, which …

Neurobiology of Huntington's disease

RAG De Souza, BR Leavitt - Behavioral Neurobiology of Huntington's …, 2015 - Springer
Of the neurodegenerative diseases presented in this book, Huntington's disease (HD)
stands as the archetypal autosomal dominantly inherited neurodegenerative disorder. Its …

Molecular biology of Huntington's disease (HD) and HD-like disorders

DC Rubinsztein - Genetics of movement disorders, 2003 - Elsevier
Publisher Summary Huntington's disease (HD) is an autosomal dominant
neurodegenerative disorder characterized by movement disorders, cognitive deterioration …