Temporal Characterization of Behavioral and Hippocampal Dysfunction in the YAC128 Mouse Model of Huntington's Disease

C de Paula Nascimento-Castro… - Biomedicines, 2022 - mdpi.com
… N-terminal region of huntingtin (htt). Even though mutant huntingtin (mHTT) is ubiquitously
expressed throughout the body, it causes selective neuronal degeneration, particularly in the …

A CAG repeat-targeting artificial miRNA lowers the mutant huntingtin level in the YAC128 model of Huntington's disease

A Kotowska-Zimmer, L Przybyl, M Pewinska… - … Therapy-Nucleic Acids, 2022 - cell.com
selectively reduce the mutant huntingtin level in cellular models of HD. The purpose of this
study was to test the efficacy, selectivity, … to the brains of YAC128 mice via intrastriatal injection …

Mutant huntingtin messenger RNA forms neuronal nuclear clusters in rodent and human brains

S Ly, MC Didiot, CM Ferguson, AH Coles… - Brain …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
… (≥60%) nuclear localization. A deeper investigation into the … This change might be due to
selective degeneration of … we used the B97-ΔN17 and YAC128 mouse models due to their …

Age-related mitochondrial alterations in brain and skeletal muscle of the YAC128 model of Huntington disease

K Bečanović, M Asghar, I Gadawska… - npj Aging and …, 2021 - nature.com
… the effects of mutant huntingtin on mitochondrial parameters … of HD is the selective
degeneration of the basal ganglia, with … increased in old YAC128 compared to young YAC128

[HTML][HTML] Rescue of aberrant huntingtin palmitoylation ameliorates mutant huntingtin-induced toxicity

FL Lemarié, NS Caron, SS Sanders, ME Schmidt… - Neurobiology of …, 2021 - Elsevier
… Lowering mHTT in the brain of YAC128 mice is not sufficient to rescue aberrant palmitoylation.
However, we demonstrate that mHTT palmitoylation can be normalized in COS-7 cells, in …

DAPK1 promotes extrasynaptic GluN2B phosphorylation and striatal spine instability in the YAC128 mouse model of Huntington disease

ME Schmidt, NS Caron, AE Aly, FL Lemarié… - Frontiers in Cellular …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
… Although striatal and cortical neurons eventually degenerateselective DAPK1 inhibitor
(TC-DAPK6) decreased exGluN2B pS1303 levels in cortical tissue from 4-week-old YAC128 mice

Altered cortico-striatal signaling and motor behaviour in the YAC128 mouse model of Huntington disease

ET Koch - 2022 - open.library.ubc.ca
Mice showed increased neuronal activity on the rotarod, which diminished by late stages of
learning. 2–3-month-old YAC128 mice … Striatal degeneration has been shown in R6/2 mice

Investigating the Role of Mutant Huntingtin mRNA in Huntington's Disease

S Ly - 2020 - repository.escholarship.umassmed …
mutant HTT mRNA in pathology or pathogenesis. Here we report that in two HD mouse models,
YAC128 and BACHD-97QΔN17, mutant … mechanism of selective striatal degeneration in …

Latent Toxoplasma gondii infection increases soluble mutant huntingtin and promotes neurodegeneration in the YAC128 mouse model of Huntington's disease

DW Donley, T Jenkins, C Deiter, R Campbell… - bioRxiv, 2019 - biorxiv.org
… We also show that latent toxoplasmosis also promotes cortical degeneration in wild-type
mice. These findings are relevant to understanding a potential link between latent …

Laquinimod treatment improves myelination deficits at the transcriptional and ultrastructural levels in the YAC128 mouse model of Huntington disease

M Garcia-Miralles, NABM Yusof, JY Tan… - Molecular …, 2019 - Springer
… under clinical development for Huntington disease (HD), has … callosum (CC) in the YAC128
HD mice. However, the nature … motor function deficits in YAC128 HD mice, and confirmed its …