Defective huntingtin protein blocks nerve signals
Saturday October 4, 2003
Researchers at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine have discovered that the defective protein in Huntington's disease, called huntingtin, disrupts nerve signals and protein transport in nerves in the brain. This is the first study to show that huntingtin proteins may cause nerve damage by clumping together and either blocking the nerve cell transport system or binding to parts of it.

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