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Tag: Dimitri Krainc
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Slowing neurodegeneration in Huntington’s
Harvard researchers have found a treatment that increases brain levels of an important regulatory enzyme may slow the loss of brain cells that characterizes Huntington’s disease and other neurodegenerative disorders.
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Health
Modification of mutant Huntington’s protein increases its clearance from brain cells
A new study has identified a potential strategy for removing the abnormal protein that causes Huntington’s disease (HD) from brain cells, which could slow the progression of the devastating neurological disorder. In today’s edition of the journal Cell, a team of Harvard researchers from the MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease (MGH-MIND) describes how an alteration…