Human glia can both induce and rescue aspects of disease phenotype in Huntington disease
The contribution of glia to Huntington's disease is unclear. The authors show that human glial progenitor cells (GPCs) expressing mutant huntingtin impair motor performance when engrafted into wild type mice, and wild type human GPCs ameliorate disease phenotypes when engrafted into an HD mouse...
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Main Authors: |
Abdellatif Benraiss,
Su Wang,
Stephanie Herrlinger,
Xiaojie Li,
Devin Chandler-Militello,
Joseph Mauceri,
Hayley B. Burm,
Michael Toner,
Mikhail Osipovitch,
Qiwu Jim Xu,
Fengfei Ding,
Fushun Wang,
Ning Kang,
Jian Kang,
Paul C. Curtin,
Daniela Brunner,
Martha S. Windrem,
Ignacio Munoz-Sanjuan,
Maiken Nedergaard,
Steven A. Goldman |
Format: | Article
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Language: | English |
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Nature Portfolio
2016-06-01
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Series: | Nature Communications
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11758
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