Huntington's disease

FO Walker - The Lancet, 2007 - thelancet.com
Huntington's disease is an autosomal-dominant, progressive neurodegenerative disorder
with a distinct phenotype, including chorea and dystonia, incoordination, cognitive decline …

RNA toxicity in non‐coding repeat expansion disorders

B Swinnen, W Robberecht, L Van Den Bosch - The EMBO journal, 2020 - embopress.org
Several neurodegenerative disorders like amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and
spinocerebellar ataxia (SCA) are caused by non‐coding nucleotide repeat expansions …

[HTML][HTML] Reduced C9orf72 protein levels in frontal cortex of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal degeneration brain with the C9ORF72 hexanucleotide …

AJ Waite, D Bäumer, S East, J Neal, HR Morris… - Neurobiology of …, 2014 - Elsevier
An intronic G 4 C 2 hexanucleotide repeat expansion in C9ORF72 is a major cause of
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal lobar degeneration. Several mechanisms …

[图书][B] Localization in clinical neurology

JC Masdeu, J Biller - 2011 - books.google.com
Now in a thoroughly revised and updated Sixth Edition, Localization in Clinical Neurology is
cornerstone in clinical neurology. Designed to aid clinicians in their quest to locate the …

The role of junctophilin proteins in cellular function

SE Lehnart, XHT Wehrens - Physiological reviews, 2022 - journals.physiology.org
Junctophilins (JPHs) comprise a family of structural proteins that connect the plasma
membrane to intracellular organelles such as the endo/sarcoplasmic reticulum (ER/SR) …

Bidirectional expression of CUG and CAG expansion transcripts and intranuclear polyglutamine inclusions in spinocerebellar ataxia type 8

ML Moseley, T Zu, Y Ikeda, W Gao, AK Mosemiller… - Nature …, 2006 - nature.com
We previously reported that a (CTG) n expansion causes spinocerebellar ataxia type 8
(SCA8), a slowly progressive ataxia with reduced penetrance. We now report a transgenic …

Seminar on choreas

F Cardoso, K Seppi, KJ Mair, GK Wenning… - The Lancet …, 2006 - thelancet.com
Chorea is one of the major types of involuntary movement disorders originating from
dysfunctional neuronal networks interconnecting the basal ganglia and frontal cortical motor …

[HTML][HTML] RNA gain-of-function in spinocerebellar ataxia type 8

RS Daughters, DL Tuttle, W Gao, Y Ikeda… - PLoS …, 2009 - journals.plos.org
Microsatellite expansions cause a number of dominantly-inherited neurological diseases.
Expansions in coding-regions cause protein gain-of-function effects, while non-coding …

An antisense transcript spanning the CGG repeat region of FMR1 is upregulated in premutation carriers but silenced in full mutation individuals

PD Ladd, LE Smith, NA Rabaia… - Human molecular …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
Expansion of the polymorphic CGG repeats within the 5′-UTR of the FMR1 gene is
associated with variable transcriptional regulation of FMR1. Here we report a novel gene …

[HTML][HTML] Neuroacanthocytosis syndromes

HH Jung, A Danek, RH Walker - Orphanet journal of rare diseases, 2011 - Springer
Neuroacanthocytosis (NA) syndromes are a group of genetically defined diseases
characterized by the association of red blood cell acanthocytosis and progressive …