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Nano-motors facilitate communication between brain cells

(PhysOrg.com) -- MRC-funded scientists led by Dr Josef Kittler (University College London Neuroscience) have identified how nano-sized motors in nerve cells help to regulate the balance of communication in ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jan 22, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists identify protein form linked to Huntington's disease

Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes have discovered how a form of the protein linked to Huntington's disease influences the timing and severity of its symptoms, offering new avenues for treating not only this disease, ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Oct 30, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers describe molecular 'two-step' leading to protein clumps of Huntington's disease

In a paper published in the early online version of Nature Structural and Molecular Biology, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine deconstruct the first steps in an intricate molecular dance that m ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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Old gastrointestinal drug slows aging

Recent animal studies have shown that clioquinol - an 80-year old drug once used to treat diarrhea and other gastrointestinal disorders - can reverse the progression of Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Huntington's diseases. ...

Chemistry /

created Jan 06, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Mystery solved: Tiny protein-activator responsible for brain cell damage in Huntington disease

Johns Hopkins brain scientists have figured out why a faulty protein accumulates in cells everywhere in the bodies of people with Huntington's disease (HD), but only kills cells in the part of the brain that controls movement, ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jun 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 0

Huntington's disease breakthrough equals hope for patients

A huge leap forward in understanding Huntington's disease may give patients hope for a cure.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Feb 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

New drugs target delay of Huntington's symptoms

(Medical Xpress) -- McMaster researchers have discovered a new drug target that may be effective at preventing the onset of Huntington's disease, working much the same way heart medications slow the progression of heart disease ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created May 31, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Research offers clue to halt Huntington's disease

(PhysOrg.com) -- Surprising findings from a study into the brains of transgenic mice carrying the Huntington's disease mutation could pave the way for treatments which delay the onset and progression of this devastating genetic ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Mar 25, 2011 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New hope in fight against Huntington's disease

Hope for new ways of treating devastating neurodegenerative disorders such as Huntington's disease has been raised by a trans-Atlantic team of researchers thanks to the use of cutting-edge genetic techniques.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jan 10, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Faulty clean-up process may be key event in Huntington's disease (w/ Video)

In a step towards a possible treatment for Huntington's disease, scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have shown for the first time that the accumulation of a mutated protein may explain ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Apr 11, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Drug shows promise for Huntington's disease

An early stage clinical trial of the experimental drug dimebon (latrepirdine) in people with Huntington's disease appears to be safe and may improve cognition. That is the conclusion of a study published today in the Archives of ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

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Researchers gain insight into mechanism underlying Huntington's

Researchers at the University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center and Graduate Center for Toxicology (GCT) have gained new insight into the genetic mechanisms underlying Huntington's disease and other neurodegenerative or neuromuscular ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jul 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers find potential treatment for Huntington's disease (w/ Video)

Investigators at Burnham Institute for Medical Research, the University of British Columbia's Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics and the University of California, San Diego have found that normal synaptic activity ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Nov 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Huntington's disease deciphered

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine have discovered how the mutated huntingtin gene acts on the nervous system to create the devastation of Huntington's disease. The report of their findings ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jun 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Researchers show efficacy of gene therapy in mouse models of Huntington's disease

Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have shown that a highly specific intrabody (an antibody fragment that works against a target inside a cell) is capable of stalling the development of Huntington's ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0