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Unravelling the secrets of ‘Huntingtin’ Protein - towards the treatment of ‘Huntingtons’ Disase

Huntingtons disease is an inherited disease of the nervous system due to the progressive gradual deterioration of the same, initially causing symptoms such as involuntary movements and balance problems and later on leading to declination of functions of speech as well. ..All these days, until now, it was thought that this disease is due to a mutated form of the protein 'huntingtin' which is respo...

Effective therapy for Huntington's disease

An acid found naturally in the body can block the death of brain cells in mice who have Huntington's disease. There is no cure for Huntington's disease (HD), which is a rare degenerative brain disorder //caused by a faulty gene. But researchers at the University of Texas may be one step closer to a treatment, according to experiments on mice with HD. ....The mice were treated with a bile acid kn...

New info about Huntington's disease found

Scientists of UCLA have found out evidence that sheds new light on the details of how Huntington's disease// affects the brain cells of the patient. ....Huntington's disease is a genetic disorder that slowly destroys the ability of the person to think or move on his own. Early symptoms of the disease may be depression, mood swings, forgetfulness, and inability to concentrate or remember. In sever...

Research identifies trigger that sets of Huntingtons disease

Researchers have discovered the key molecule that gets over activated by the protein of the Huntingtons disease// and sets way for the condition to be expressed. ..Huntingtons disease is a genetic disorder that slowly destroys the ability of the person to think or move by himself. Early symptoms of the disease may be depression, mood swings, forgetfulness, and inability to concentrate or remember...

Huntington's sufferers have reason to cheer: sufferings might have an end!!!

If latest research is to be believed neural transplants could be used to provide relief to Huntington's sufferers...This piece of good news for a number of people came from a group of French scientists who argued that neuronal transplants can provide improvement and a period of stability in Huntington's disease sufferers. // ....Huntingdon’s disease is a bad thing to happen to anyone. It is a pr...

Fetal Neural Grafts Improves Motor and Cognitive Function in Huntington Patients

Anne-Catherine Bachoud-Lévi, M.D., and colleagues of the French national institute of health and medicine reported in The Lancet that Huntington's disease// who previously received intracerebral fetal neural grafts had improvements in both motor and cognitive function. ..But the same investigators reported today that the improvements in Huntington's disease patients plateaued after two years an...

Animal Study Found Cure For Huntington Disease

An real evidence of Huntington disease curing medicine have been found by researchers at the University of British Columbia's Centre for Molecular // Medicine and Therapeutics (CMMT), when they studied with mouse. This provided hope in curing the disease in humans. ....Published today in Cell journal, Dr. Michael Hayden and colleagues discovered that by preventing the cleavage of the mutant hunt...

Link Between Huntington’s and Abnormal Cholesterol Levels in Brain Establishe

Mayo Clinic researchers have discovered a protein interaction that may explain how the deadly Huntington’s disease affects the brain.// The findings, published in and featured on the cover of the current issue of Human Molecular Genetics, show how the mutated Huntington’s protein interacts with another protein to cause dramatic accumulation of cholesterol in the brain. .. ..“Cholesterol is essen...

Scientists Enlist Worms to Discover New Therapies for Huntington’s Diseas

Scientists from UAH are working with the U.S army to find clues that may help to build therapies for// Huntington’s disease. ..Lead researcher Dr. Lynn Boyd, an associate professor of biology at UAH has enlisted the help of an army of worms to find out what effect certain enzymes will have, on the clusters of amino acids associated with Huntington’s disease. .. While it is not known if these...

Researchers Discovers DNA Repair as Key to Huntington's Disease

Researchers have discovered that a miscue of the body’s genetic repair system may cause Huntington’s disease, a fatal condition that affects 30,000 Americans annually// by destroying their nervous system. Until now, no one knew how Huntington’s begins, only that it is incurable. ...."We showed that when single-strand breaks in DNA caused by oxidative lesions were repaired, the Huntington’s gene...

Myelin Associated With Early Evolution of Huntington's Disease

A new study has found that a breakdown of myelin is associated with the early evolution of Huntington's disease. Last month, Dr. George Bartzokis, director of the UCLA Memory Disorders and Alzheimer's Disease Clinic, suggested in the journal Alzheimer's and Dementia that the collapse of a type of myelin that develops late in life promotes the enlargement of toxic amyloid plaques long associate...

Early Prediction of Huntingtons Disease is Possible by Subtle Signs

US researchers have shown that subtle signs may enable early prediction of Huntingtons disease, an incurable genetic disorder that affects movement , thinking, and some aspects of personality. ......Dr. Jane S. Paulsen of the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine in Iowa City studied 218 people in North America, Europe, and Australia. ......Each of the participant...

Protein Interactions Targets for Huntington Disease Therapy

The identification of more than 200 new proteins that interact with the mutated protein that causes Huntingtons disease opens the door to developing treatments for the fatal neurodegenerative disorder, said a Baylor College of Medicine researcher who took part in the work that appears online today in the journal Public Library of Science Genetics. ......BCM scientists actually determined which...

Avicena to Advance Huntington's Disease Clinical Program into Phase III

Avicena Group, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: AVGO), a late stage biotechnology company that develops central nervous system therapeutics for neurodegenerative diseases, announced today the selection of the optimal dose of HD-02, its novel drug candidate for the treatment of Huntington's Disease. ...This dose was determined in an open-label dose escalation study, led by Dr. Steven Hersch and Dr. Dia...