Protease associated with damage after stroke implicated in Huntington's toxicity

Thursday, July 29, 2010 - 06:42 in Health & Medicine

A new study reveals that an enzyme linked with multiple disorders is also involved in the generation of toxic, neurone-killing protein fragments in Huntington's disease (HD). The research, published by Cell Press in the July 29 issue of Neuron, provides insight into Huntington's pathology and proposes new therapeutic strategies for this devastating incurable disease...

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