Backtracking along a Biochemical Path in Search of a Cure for Huntington's Disease (IMAGE)

Duke University Medical Center

Backtracking along a Biochemical Path in Search of a Cure for Huntington's Disease

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Misfolded proteings in cells of people with Huntington's disease cause the death of neurons in brain and muscle cells in the body. Scientists have known that in people with Huntington's, chaperone proteins -- whose job it is to fold misfolded proteins 0 are at low levels, but it wasn't clear why.

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Alisa Weigandt for Duke Health

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