Sentences with phrase «block htt»

The findings are significant, Brivanlou notes, since they indicate that existing treatments that were designed to block HTT activity may actually do more harm than good.

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It halts an intermediate step in the protein - making process by binding to genetic material known as RNA, blocking the issuing of final instructions for making the Htt protein.

Treatments for Huntington's have typically focused on blocking the activity of the mutant HTT protein, the assumption being that the altered form of the protein was more active than normal, and therefore toxic to neurons.