UCI team finds method to reduce accumulation of damaging Huntington's disease protein

(University of California - Irvine) A study appearing April 14 in the journal Neuron suggests there may be a new way to change the damaging course of Huntington disease. Researchers have shown that reducing the aberrant accumulation of a particular form of the mutant Huntingtin protein corresponds to improvement in symptoms and neuroinflammation in HD mice.
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