Therapeutic Strategies in Huntington's Disease

Applying Bioinfomatics Strategies in Huntingtons Disease Research

Therapeutic Strategies in Huntington's Disease

This article provides an overview of the therapeutic strategies, from ordinary classical drugs to the modern molecular strategy at experimental level, for Huntington's disease. The disease is characterized by choreic movements, psychiatric disorders, striatal atrophy with selective small neuronal loss, and autosomal dominant inheritance. The genetic abnormality is CAG expansion in huntingtin ge...

Emerging Therapeutic Strategies in Alzheimer's Disease

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia in midto late-life. It currently affects about 10% of individuals older than 65 years old, counting for more than 25 million people in the world (Chiba et al., 2007; Huang and Mucke, 2012; Mattson, 2004). A century has passed since the famous neurologist Alois Alzheimer first described about a 51-year-old female patient with severe p...

Neurodegenerative pathways in Parkinson's disease: therapeutic strategies.

Parkinson's disease (PD), considered one of the major neurological disorders, is characterized by the loss of dopaminergic neurons in the pars compacta of the substantia nigra and by the presence of intraneuronal cytoplasmic inclusions called Lewy bodies. The causes for degeneration of PD neurons remain unclear, however, recent findings contributed to clarify this issue. This review will discus...

MRI Tz Hypointensities in basal ganglia of premanifest Huntingtons disease