Neurodegenerative diseases–is metabolic deficiency the root cause?

VR Muddapu, SAP Dharshini… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer, Parkinson, Huntington, and amyotrophic
lateral sclerosis, are a prominent class of neurological diseases currently without a cure …

[HTML][HTML] Striosomes mediate value-based learning vulnerable in age and a Huntington's disease model

A Friedman, E Hueske, SM Drammis, SET Arana… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Learning valence-based responses to favorable and unfavorable options requires
judgments of the relative value of the options, a process necessary for species survival. We …

DAPK1 promotes extrasynaptic GluN2B phosphorylation and striatal spine instability in the YAC128 mouse model of Huntington disease

ME Schmidt, NS Caron, AE Aly, FL Lemarié… - Frontiers in Cellular …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Huntington disease (HD) is a devastating neurodegenerative disorder caused by a CAG
repeat expansion in the huntingtin gene. Disrupted cortico-striatal transmission is an early …

GPR52 antagonist reduces huntingtin levels and ameliorates Huntington's disease-related phenotypes

C Wang, YF Zhang, S Guo, Q Zhao… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2020 - ACS Publications
GPR52 is an orphan G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) that has been recently implicated
as a potential drug target of Huntington's disease (HD), an incurable monogenic …

Structural and functional features of medium spiny neurons in the BACHDΔN17 mouse model of Huntington's Disease

J Goodliffe, A Rubakovic, W Chang, D Pathak… - Plos one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
In the BACHD mouse model of Huntington's disease (HD), deletion of the N17 domain of the
Huntingtin gene (BACHDΔN17, Q97) has been reported to lead to nuclear accumulation of …

Functional identification of specialized basal ganglia circuits that regulate vocal motor sequences

L Xiao, DP Merullo, M Cao, M Co, A Kulkarni… - bioRxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
Production of learned vocalizations requires precise selection and accurate sequencing of
appropriate vocal-motor actions. The basal ganglia are essential for the selection and …

Single-cell transcriptional profiling of Huntington's disease in human and mouse models

SS Pineda - 2020 - dspace.mit.edu
Uncovering the mechanisms that drive cell type-specific vulnerability differences in
Huntington's disease (HD) is an imperative prerequisite to finding a reliable therapeutic …