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ArticleJournal of neurology2021

Huntington's disease: lessons from prion disorders.

Melanie Alpaugh, Francesca Cicchetti

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Article in Journal of neurology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Coiled-Coil Structures Mediate the Intercellular Propagation of Huntingtin.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Melanie AlpaughDépartement de Psychiatrie & Neurosciences, Faculté de Médecine, Université Laval, Québec, QC, G1V 0A6, Canada. melanie.alpaugh@crchudequebec.ulaval.ca.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2782-5454
Francesca CicchettiDépartement de Psychiatrie & Neurosciences, Faculté de Médecine, Université Laval, Québec, QC, G1V 0A6, Canada. francesca.cicchetti@crchudequebec.ulaval.ca.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5490-1961

Funding

CIHR 201910MFE-430883-231775CIHR PJT-162164CIHR PJT-168865Fonds de Recherche du Québec - Santé 260387Fonds de Recherche du Québec - Santé 35059
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Decades of research on the prion protein and its associated diseases have caused a paradigm shift in our understanding of infectious agents. More recent years have been marked by a surge of studies supporting the application of these findings to a broad array of neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases. Here, we present evidence to suggest that Huntington's disease, a monogenic disorder of the central nervous system, shares features with prion disorders and that, it too, may be governed by similar mechanisms. We further posit that these similarities could suggest that, like other common neurodegenerative disorders, sporadic forms of Huntington's disease may exist.

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Huntington DiseaseNeurodegenerative DiseasesPrion DiseasesPrionsHumansPrion ProteinsPrion ProteinsPrionsHuntingtinHuntington’s disease-likePrion-likeTissue spongiform encephalopathies

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