Search Results - "Caron, Nicholas S"
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Interrupting sequence variants and age of onset in Huntington's disease: clinical implications and emerging therapies
Published in Lancet neurology (01-11-2020)“…Huntington's disease is a fatal neurodegenerative disorder that is caused by CAG-CAA repeat expansion, encoding polyglutamine, in the huntingtin (HTT) gene…”
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Cerebrospinal fluid mutant huntingtin is a biomarker for huntingtin lowering in the striatum of Huntington disease mice
Published in Neurobiology of disease (01-05-2022)“…Huntington disease (HD) is a neurodegenerative disease caused by a trinucleotide repeat expansion in the HTT gene encoding an elongated polyglutamine tract in…”
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Using FLIM-FRET to measure conformational changes of transglutaminase type 2 in live cells
Published in PloS one (31-08-2012)“…Transglutaminase type 2 (TG2) is a ubiquitously expressed member of the transglutaminase family, capable of mediating a transamidation reaction between a…”
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Allele-specific quantitation of ATXN3 and HTT transcripts in polyQ disease models
Published in BMC biology (01-02-2023)“…The majority of genes in the human genome is present in two copies but the expression levels of both alleles is not equal. Allelic imbalance is an aspect of…”
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Rescue of aberrant huntingtin palmitoylation ameliorates mutant huntingtin-induced toxicity
Published in Neurobiology of disease (01-10-2021)“…Huntington disease (HD) is a neurodegenerative disorder caused by a CAG expansion in the HTT gene that codes for an elongated polyglutamine tract in the…”
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Live cell imaging and biophotonic methods reveal two types of mutant huntingtin inclusions
Published in Human molecular genetics (01-05-2014)“…Huntington's disease (HD) is an autosomal dominant, neurodegenerative disorder that can be characterized by the presence of protein inclusions containing…”
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DAPK1 Promotes Extrasynaptic GluN2B Phosphorylation and Striatal Spine Instability in the YAC128 Mouse Model of Huntington Disease
Published in Frontiers in cellular neuroscience (05-11-2020)“…Huntington disease (HD) is a devastating neurodegenerative disorder caused by a CAG repeat expansion in the huntingtin gene. Disrupted cortico-striatal…”
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The Interaction of Aging and Cellular Stress Contributes to Pathogenesis in Mouse and Human Huntington Disease Neurons
Published in Frontiers in aging neuroscience (18-09-2020)“…Huntington disease (HD) is a fatal, inherited neurodegenerative disorder caused by a mutation in huntingtin (HTT). While mutant HTT is present ubiquitously…”
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Preventing mutant huntingtin proteolysis and intermittent fasting promote autophagy in models of Huntington disease
Published in Acta neuropathologica communications (06-03-2018)“…Huntington disease (HD) is caused by the expression of mutant huntingtin (mHTT) bearing a polyglutamine expansion. In HD, mHTT accumulation is accompanied by a…”
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Elevated plasma and CSF neurofilament light chain concentrations are stabilized in response to mutant huntingtin lowering in the brains of Huntington's disease mice
Published in Translational neurodegeneration (08-10-2024)“…Therapeutic approaches aimed at lowering toxic mutant huntingtin (mHTT) levels in the brain can reverse disease phenotypes in animal models of Huntington's…”
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Functional characterization of variants of unknown significance in a spinocerebellar ataxia patient using an unsupervised machine learning pipeline
Published in Human genome variation (14-04-2022)“…CAG-expanded ATXN7 has been previously defined in the pathogenesis of spinocerebellar ataxia type 7 (SCA7), a polyglutamine expansion autosomal dominant…”
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Therapeutic approaches to Huntington disease: from the bench to the clinic
Published in Nature reviews. Drug discovery (01-10-2018)“…New therapies, including RNA-based and gene therapies, are poised to change the therapeutic landscape for Huntington disease. In this article, Hayden and…”
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Potent and sustained huntingtin lowering via AAV5 encoding miRNA preserves striatal volume and cognitive function in a humanized mouse model of Huntington disease
Published in Nucleic acids research (10-01-2020)“…Abstract Huntington disease (HD) is a fatal neurodegenerative disease caused by a pathogenic expansion of a CAG repeat in the huntingtin (HTT) gene. There are…”
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Exon 1-targeting miRNA reduces the pathogenic exon 1 HTT protein in Huntington's disease models
Published in Brain (London, England : 1878) (15-10-2024)“…Abstract Huntington’s disease (HD) is a fatal neurodegenerative disease caused by a trinucleotide repeat expansion in exon 1 of the huntingtin gene (HTT) that…”
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Intrinsic mutant HTT-mediated defects in oligodendroglia cause myelination deficits and behavioral abnormalities in Huntington disease
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (07-05-2019)“…Whitematter abnormalities are a nearly universal pathological feature of neurodegenerative disorders including Huntington disease (HD). A long-held assumption…”
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Mutant Huntingtin Is Cleared from the Brain via Active Mechanisms in Huntington Disease
Published in The Journal of neuroscience (27-01-2021)“…Huntington disease (HD) is a neurodegenerative disease caused by a CAG trinucleotide repeat expansion in the huntingtin ( ) gene. Therapeutics that lower HTT…”
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A Comprehensive Haplotype-Targeting Strategy for Allele-Specific HTT Suppression in Huntington Disease
Published in American journal of human genetics (05-12-2019)“…Huntington disease (HD) is a fatal neurodegenerative disorder caused by a gain-of-function mutation in HTT. Suppression of mutant HTT has emerged as a leading…”
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Huntingtin Haplotypes Provide Prioritized Target Panels for Allele-specific Silencing in Huntington Disease Patients of European Ancestry
Published in Molecular therapy (01-11-2015)“…Huntington disease (HD) is a dominant neurodegenerative disorder caused by a CAG repeat expansion in the Huntingtin gene (HTT). Heterozygous polymorphisms in…”
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Gene expression profiles complement the analysis of genomic modifiers of the clinical onset of Huntington disease
Published in Human molecular genetics (29-09-2020)“…Abstract Huntington disease (HD) is a neurodegenerative disorder that is caused by a CAG repeat expansion in HTT. The length of this repeat, however, only…”
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Systemic delivery of mutant huntingtin lowering antisense oligonucleotides to the brain using apolipoprotein A-I nanodisks for Huntington disease
Published in Journal of controlled release (01-03-2024)“…Efficient delivery of therapeutics to the central nervous system (CNS) remains a major challenge for the treatment of neurological diseases. Huntington disease…”
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