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By. Alejandra González Torres
RISE Program
Lab. BIOL 3009
Prof. E. Llera Santos
IS THERE A WAY TO SLOW DOWN THE HUNTINGTON'S
DISEASE?
WHAT IS THE HUNTINGTON?
Is a disorder passed down through families.
Nerve cells waste away, or degenerate, in the brain
. It’s caused by a genetic defect on chromosome 4
Huntington's targets the brain, triggering the
death of cells vital to movement, speech, mood, and
memory
METHODOLOGY
It will consist of three phases:
Phase 1- Living cells
Phase 2- Rats
Phase 3- Humans
It can be repeated several times
EXPECTED RESULTS
Phase 1- find what is slowing down the HD using
the protein
Phase 2- that the HD slows down
Phase 3- same or better results from phase 2
REFERENCES
Georgia Tech [Internet] Atlanta (GA) Available:
http://gtresearchnews.gatech.edu/huntingtons-
disease/
NIH [Internet] [2011] N/A NIH; [cited 2011 May
19] Available:
http://publications.nigms.nih.gov/findings/sept08/hu
nting.asp