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ReviewDegenerative neurological and neuromuscular disease2016

Novel targets for Huntington's disease: future prospects.

Sarah L Mason, Roger A Barker

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Review in Degenerative neurological and neuromuscular disease, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Metal Ion Binding to Human Glutaminyl Cyclase: A Structural Perspective.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024
    Article
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  3. Review
  4. Huntington's disease and neurovascular structure of retina.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2022
    Article
  5. Irritability in Huntington's Disease.Journal of Huntington's disease · 2020
    Review
4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Sarah L MasonJohn van Geest Centre for Brain Repair, slm64@cam.ac.uk.
Roger A BarkerJohn van Geest Centre for Brain Repair, slm64@cam.ac.uk.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Huntington's disease (HD) is an incurable, inherited, progressive, neurodegenerative disorder that is characterized by a triad of motor, cognitive, and psychiatric problems. Despite the noticeable increase in therapeutic trials in HD in the last 20 years, there have, to date, been very few significant advances. The main hope for new and emerging therapeutics for HD is to develop a neuroprotective compound capable of slowing down or even stopping the progression of the disease and ultimately prevent the subtle early signs from developing into manifest disease. Recently, there has been a noticeable shift away from symptomatic therapies in favor of more mechanistic-based interventions, a change driven by a better understanding of the pathogenesis of this disorder. In this review, we discuss the status of, and supporting evidence for, potential novel treatments of HD that are currently under development or have reached the level of early Phase I/II clinical trials.

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cell deathdisease modificationglial modulationtranscript dysregulation

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PMID30050366
PMCPMC6053088

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