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RNA Toxicity Contributes To Neurodegenerative Disease
Poster: michelle Sun Jun 08, 2008 7:58 am


RNA Toxicity Contributes To Neurodegenerative Disease, University Of Pennsylvania Scientists Say

Article Date: 23 May 2008 - 0:00 PDT
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/108465.php
Expanding on prior research performed at the University of Pennsylvania, Penn biologists have ...

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Approved drugs found to induce autophagy
Poster: michelle Mon Mar 31, 2008 4:50 pm

HDlighthouse.org
Approved drugs found to induce autophagy



UK researchers have found that several existing drugs which are already approved for other purposes induce autophagy, an alternate way to clear away the HD protein.
Editor's Comment:


Inducing autophagy as an alternate way to enhance the cleara...

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Hope for Parkinson's sufferers as mice cured
Poster: michelle Mon Mar 31, 2008 4:46 pm

http://www.smh.com.au/news/science/hope-for-parkinsons-sufferers-as-mice-cured/2008/03/24/1206206962659.html
The controversial technique of therapeutic cloning has been successfully used to treat a disease for the first time, with mice with Parkinson's disease found to improve after receiving their own modified cells.
American and Japanese research...

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HD and Sexuality
Poster: michelle Thu Mar 20, 2008 4:34 pm


Abstract

Sexuality and partnership have an important influence on the quality of life of patients with chronic disorders. There are just a few studies in literature about sexuality in Huntington’s disease which conclude that up to 85% men and up to 75% of women experience high levels of sexual problems, most of them having prevalen...

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Huntington Protein's First Act: Overexciting Synapses
Poster: michelle Fri Feb 01, 2008 2:01 pm

Huntington Protein's First Act: Overexciting Synapses

http://www.alzforum.org/new/detail.asp?id=1733
12 January 2008

A new fly model of Huntington disease (HD) reveals a novel pathogenic mechanism for the polyglutamine-expanded huntingtin protein. By expressing full-length huntingtin, rather than a fragment, Juan Botas and colleagues at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston...

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mental and physical excercise delay HD
Poster: michelle Thu Jan 31, 2008 6:40 am

Mental and physical exercise delays dementia in fatal genetic disease
24.01.08
Category: Diseases, Huntington’s disease, Dementia
L to R: Mari Kondo, Dr Jess Nithianantharajah and Dr Laura Gray are investigating how an enriched environment can cause changes in the brain.
Scientists at Melbourne’s Howard Florey Institute have discovered that mental and physical stimulation delays the onset of dementia in the fatal genetic disease, Huntington's disease.
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