Frontiers | Quantification of Huntington's Disease Related Markers in the R6/2 Mouse Model
2Department of Health Studies, FH Joanneum University of Applied Sciences, Graz, Austria Huntington’s disease (HD) is caused by an expansion of CAG triplets in the huntingtin gene, leading to severe neuropathological changes that result in a devasting and lethal phenotype. Neurodegeneration in HD begins in the striatum and spreads to other brain regions such as cortex and hippocampus, causing motor and cognitive dysfunctions. To understand the signaling pathways involved in HD, animal models that mimic the human pathology are used. The R6/2 mouse as model of HD was already shown to present ...
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