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RSS FeedsResearchers identify new potential drug target for Huntington`s disease
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12 january 2018 07:35:01

 
Researchers identify new potential drug target for Huntington`s disease
(WorldNews Health)
 


ANN ARBOR-A team of researchers led by the University of Michigan, the Baylor College of Medicine and the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences has identified a new drug target for treating Huntington`s disease, a fatal neurological disorder for which there currently is no cure or preventative therapy. Huntington`s is an inherited disorder caused by a defect in a single gene, which causes mutant proteins to aggregate in cells. The disease triggers the progressive breakdown of nerve cells in the brain, producing severe physical and neurological damage that continues to get worse over time. The researchers` findings, published Dec. 19 in the journal eLife, identified an enzyme...


 
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