Replicating Huntington's disease phenotype in experimental animals

E Brouillet, F Conde, MF Beal, P Hantraye - Progress in neurobiology, 1999 - Elsevier
Huntington's disease (HD) is an inherited, autosomal dominant, neurodegenerative disorder
characterized by involuntary choreiform movements, cognitive decline and a progressive …

The selective vulnerability of striatopallidal neurons

IJ Mitchell, AJ Cooper, MR Griffiths - Progress in neurobiology, 1999 - Elsevier
The different types of striatal neuron show a range of vulnerabilities to a variety of insults.
This can be clearly seen in Huntington's disease where a well mapped pattern of …

Enhanced sensitivity to N‐methyl‐D‐aspartate receptor activation in transgenic and knockin mouse models of Huntington's disease

MS Levine, GJ Klapstein, A Koppel… - Journal of …, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
We used two mouse models of Huntington's disease (HD) to examine changes in glutamate
receptor sensitivity and striatal electrophysiology. One model, a transgenic, consisted of …

Huntington's disease intranuclear inclusions contain truncated, ubiquitinated huntingtin protein

KA Sieradzan, AO Mechan, L Jones, EE Wanker… - Experimental …, 1999 - Elsevier
Intranuclear inclusion bodies are a shared pathological feature of Huntington's disease (HD)
and its transgenic mouse model. Using a panel of antibodies spanning the entire huntingtin …

Brain-derived neurotrophic factor, neurotrophin-3 and neurotrophin-4/5 differentially regulate the phenotype and prevent degenerative changes in striatal projection …

E Perez-Navarro, J Alberch, I Neveu, E Arenas - Neuroscience, 1999 - Elsevier
To determine whether growth factors of the neurotrophin family are able to regulate the
phenotype of striatal projection neurons, cell lines overexpressing brain-derived …

Preprotachykinin‐A mRNA expression in the human and monkey brain: an in situ hybridization study

YL Hurd, E Keller, P Sotonyi… - Journal of Comparative …, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
The mRNA expression for preprotachykinin‐A (PPT‐A) was studied throughout the human
and cynomolgus monkey brain to assess the neuroanatomical expression pattern of the PPT …

Chemical architecture of the basal ganglia

AM Graybiel, JB Penney - Handbook of chemical neuroanatomy, 1999 - Elsevier
The basal ganglia have long been singled out for studies of the chemical neuroanatomy of
the brain because of the rich variety of neurotransmitter, neuropeptide and aminergic …

Systemic administration of 3-nitropropionic acid: A new model of Huntington's Disease in rat

E Brouillet, P Hantraye, MF Beal - … : Innovative Animal Models from Lab to …, 1999 - Springer
Huntington's disease (HD) is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by dyskinetic
abnormal movements and cognitive decline associated with progressive atrophy of the …

and Stephen B. Dunnett

KJ Page, A Meldrum - Mitochondrial Inhibitors and …, 1999 - books.google.com
Metabolic compromise has been found to precede both neuronal loss and the appearance
of motoric and cognitive deficits in Huntington's disease (HD) patients. Studies using both …

A New Model of Huntington's Disease in Rat

E Brouillet, P Hantraye, MF Beal - Central Nervous System …, 1999 - books.google.com
Huntington's disease (HD) is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by dyskinetic
abnormal movements and cognitive decline associated with progressive atrophy of the …