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ReviewHistology and histopathology2008

Therapeutic perspectives for the treatment of Huntington's disease: treating the whole body.

Bronwen Martin, Erin Golden, Alex Keselman, Matthew Stone, Mark P Mattson, Josephine M Egan, Stuart Maudsley

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Review in Histology and histopathology, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

28 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Bronwen MartinNational Institute on Aging, NIH, Gerontology Research Center, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA.
Erin Golden
Alex Keselman
Matthew Stone
Mark P Mattson
Josephine M Egan
Stuart Maudsley

Funding

Age and pathology-induced alteration of G protein-coupled receptor signalingZ01AG000318 · NIA · NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING · PI MAUDSLEY, STUART · 2007 to 2008
$905k
Intramural NIH HHS Z01 AG000318
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Huntington's disease (HD) is a tremendously debilitating disorder that strikes relatively young individuals and progresses rapidly over the next ten to fifteen years inducing a loss of cognitive and motor skills and eventually death occurs. The primary locus of the disorder is a polyglutamine expansion of the protein product of the huntingtin (htt) gene. The htt protein appears to be a scaffolding protein that orchestrates the complex assembly of multiple intracellular proteins involved in multiple processes, including vesicular movement and cell metabolism. The htt protein is ubiquitously expressed in human tissues but the predominance of the interest in the pathology lies in its effects on the central nervous system (CNS). Most of the current therapeutics for HD thus have been targeted at preventing neuronal damage in the CNS, however, a considerable body of evidence has been accumulating to suggest that the maintenance of a healthy nervous system is tightly linked with peripheral physiological health. Therefore treatment of both the peripheral and central pathophysiologies of HD could form the basis of a more effective HD therapeutic strategy.

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AnimalsCentral Nervous SystemDisease Models, AnimalGene ExpressionHumansHuntington DiseasePeripheral Nervous SystemSerotonin Plasma Membrane Transport ProteinsSerotonin Plasma Membrane Transport ProteinsSLC6A4 protein, human

Identifiers

PMID17999380
PMCPMC2657556

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