Emory Research Identifies Neurodegeneration Cause in Huntington's Disease
Filed in archive Studies , Treatment by Gloria Gamat on June 9, 2006

It has been previously suggested that the severe neurodegeneration associated with Huntington's disease may result from molecular mutations that block the transport of nutrients within cells.
Recent research conducted at the Emory University School of Medicine indicate that the mutant hungtinton protein limits the efforts of the huntington-associated protein-1 (HAP1) to provide nutrients to growing neurons, or neurites. Neurites fail to develop and mature neurons degenerate without those nutrients.
These findings at Emory that appear in the May 31 issue of the Journal of Neuroscience are the latest of more than a decade of Huntington's disease-related discoveries. Headed by Xiao-Jiang Li, PhD (professor of human genetics
at Emory University School of Medicine), the Emory research team are making a headway in the search for a cure.Read more at Emory press release.
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