Sentences with phrase «mutant htt»
Unfortunately, that means that about one third of people have the same ribbons at these points on both the good and bad kites, so these drugs wouldn't specifically target the mutant HTT gene.
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These SNPs were chosen because their sequences tend to be different in the normal and mutant HTT gene: the ribbons at that point in the good and bad kites» tails tend to be a different colour, distinguishable by the drone.
More research is needed to further explore the role of WT htt in the adult as well as to determine what level of adult WT htt knockdown will be permissible while attempting to reduce the mutant Htt protein.
A 50 % reduction in HDAC4 restored these and other electrophysiological changes in both the R6 / 2 model, a transgenic over-expresser of Exon 1 HTT with an expanded polyglutamine repeat, and heterozygous Q175 knock - in mice (Q175 + / --RRB-, which carry one normal and one mutant HTT allele with an expanded repeat of ~ 190 polyglutamines, in addition to reversing behavioral alterations in R6 / 2 mice (Mielcarek et al, 2013; PLOS Biology, in press).
Expression of mutant Htt appeared to alter the firing rate of STN neurons, as firing rates in HET and HOM mice were lower than their WT littermate.
Molecular studies at PsychoGenics and other organizations have demonstrated that the excision of the neomycin resistance cassette results in a modest but significant increase in mutant HTT mRNA levels, and a trend towards an increase in soluble mHTT protein and extranuclear inclusions.
Finally we aim at identifying phenotype specific transcriptional targets of mutant HTT (mut - HTT) or HTT loss of function in relevant neuronal / glial populations.
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.
Next up: a larger trial in hundreds of patients to see if lowering mutant Htt protein slows progression of the disease, then a trial in healthy people who carry the mutant HTT gene to see if antisense treatments could prevent Huntington's altogether.
Not exact matches
We present here the first comprehensive behavioral analysis of the effects of a conditional knock - down (starting at 4.5 weeks of age) of WT endogenous htt in adult mice in the absence of any potential mutant gain - of - function.