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In this section you will find brain related research Updates and other content related to HD.

   
 
25 Jul 2010
Reduced Creatine Kinase
Reduced creatine kinase is a promising biomarker.
 
25 Jul 2010
Sirtuin Inhibition Achieves Neuroprotection by Decreasing Sterol Biosynthesis
SIRT2 inhibition emerges as a promising therapeutic strategy.
 
24 May 2010
Neurosearch Amends the ACR-16 Results
Statistical significance not achieved on primary endpoint.
 
24 May 2010
Cargo Recognition is Impaired in HD
Autophagy increases but is impaired, leading to an increase of the HD protein in the cytosol.
 
14 Apr 2010
CoQ10 and Minocycline not helpful in Mouse Model
Neither CoQ10 nor minocycline were helpful in the R6/2 mouse and high doses of minocycline resulted in decreased survival time.
 
3 Feb 2010
The European trial of ACR16 yields good results
ACR16 improves voluntary and involuntary movement. This is wonderful news!
 
31 Jan 2010
A Sirtuin Inhibitor Enters Phase1a Clinical Trials in Europe
Siena Biotech announces a safety and tolerability study with healthy volunteers, preparatory to trials in HD patients.
 
22 Dec 2009
Synaptic activity, aggregation, and memantine
Normal synaptic activity is neuroprotective, that extrasynaptic activity is toxic, and that memantine will suppress the later while leaving the former unaffected.
 
22 Dec 2009
Invitation to participate in a quality of life survey
Here is an opportunity to tell the medical professionals about quality of life issues.
 
6 Dec 2009
An interview with Dr. Jan Nolta
A trial of mesenchymal stem cell is planned for the end of 2010.
 

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From the old site:

27-Feb-02 Neurogenesis
12-Oct-01 Exchangers In The Brain
10-Oct-01 Brain Blood Flow Increased
08-Oct-01 Nobel Medicine Prize
02-Oct-01 Top Guns to Meet
22-Aug-01 Memory Loss?
15-May-2001 Our Aging Brain
17Mar2001 Brain Recovery
09/01/98 Nitric Oxide
03/04/99 Blood-Brain
06/19/99 Bleached brains
01/14/98 Growing Brain Cells
11/09/99 Calcium in Cells
05/14/98 CJD-HD
11/05/98 Cell Implants
11/09/99 Glutamate
10/17/00 Disgust
10/28/98 DR.Gage
07/19/00 Glia
06/22/00 Healing Brains
05/28/00 Brain Repair
12/28/98 Brain Map
11/26/98 Paradigm Shift
10/14/99 New Neurons
02/01/00 Old Dogma
11/07/98 Old Dogs
09/02/00 Who is Normal?
09/02/99 Blood Flow
12/29/98 Hammersmith Scan
07/07/98 Brain Deposits
11/16/98 Exercise







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