Slowing Down Brain Degeneration in a Model of Huntington's Disease

Blocking a specific class of glutamate receptors called extrasynaptic NMDA receptors, can improve motor learning and coordination and can prevent cell death in animal models of Huntington's disease, shows a research presented by Dr. Lynn Raymond, from the University of British Columbia. As Huntington disease is an inherited condition that can be detected decades before any clinical symptoms are seen in humans, a better understanding of the earliest changes in brain cell (neuronal) ...

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