Potential disease-modifying therapies for Huntington's disease: lessons learned and future opportunities

SJ Tabrizi, C Estevez-Fraga… - The Lancet …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Huntington's disease is the most frequent autosomal dominant neurodegenerative disorder;
however, no disease-modifying interventions are available for patients with this disease. The …

Polyglutamine diseases

EL Bunting, J Hamilton, SJ Tabrizi - Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 2022 - Elsevier
Polyglutamine diseases are a collection of nine CAG trinucleotide expansion disorders,
presenting with a spectrum of neurological and clinical phenotypes. Recent human, mouse …

The person-to-person transmission landscape of the gut and oral microbiomes

M Valles-Colomer, A Blanco-Míguez, P Manghi… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The human microbiome is an integral component of the human body and a co-determinant
of several health conditions,. However, the extent to which interpersonal relations shape the …

Molecular strategies to target protein aggregation in Huntington's disease

OD Jarosińska, SGD Rüdiger - Frontiers in molecular biosciences, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Huntington's disease (HD) is a neurodegenerative disorder caused by the aggregation of
the mutant huntingtin (mHTT) protein in nerve cells. mHTT self-aggregates to form soluble …

Genetically modified large animal models for investigating neurodegenerative diseases

W Yang, X Chen, S Li, XJ Li - Cell & Bioscience, 2021 - Springer
Neurodegenerative diseases represent a large group of neurological disorders including
Alzheimer's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, and Huntington's …

[HTML][HTML] Advances in animal models of Parkinson's disease

S He, Q Ru, L Chen, G Xu, Y Wu - Brain research bulletin, 2024 - Elsevier
Parkinson's disease is a complex neurodegenerative disease characterized by progressive
movement impairments. Predominant symptoms encompass resting tremor, bradykinesia …

Toxic effects of mutant huntingtin in axons are mediated by its proline-rich domain

ST Brady, NA Mesnard-Hoaglin, S Mays, M Priego… - Brain, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Huntington's disease results from expansion of a polyglutamine tract (polyQ) in mutant
huntingtin (mHTT) protein, but mechanisms underlying polyQ expansion-mediated toxic gain …

Huntingtin Interacting Proteins and Pathological Implications

L Liu, H Tong, Y Sun, X Chen, T Yang, G Zhou… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Huntington's disease (HD) is caused by an expansion of a CAG repeat in the gene that
encodes the huntingtin protein (HTT). The exact function of HTT is still not fully understood …

Exploding the repeat length paradigm while exploring amyloid toxicity in Huntington's disease

R Wetzel - Accounts of Chemical Research, 2020 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Huntington's disease (HD) is a progressive, familial neurodegenerative disease
triggered by the expansion of a polyglutamine (polyQ) track in the protein huntingtin (htt) …

The regulatory roles of microRNAs toward pathogenesis and treatments in Huntington's disease

CW Tung, PY Huang, SC Chan, PH Cheng… - Journal of biomedical …, 2021 - Springer
Huntington's disease (HD) is one of neurodegenerative diseases, and is defined as a
monogenetic disease due to the mutation of Huntingtin gene. This disease affects several …