A fly's eye view of Huntington's disease

Alison Mitchell

Nature, 1998, vol. 395, issue 6705, 841-841

Abstract: Animal models can often help in studying human diseases, and one such model is now described for Huntington's disease. A characteristic of Huntington's disease is long tracts of the amino acid glutamine in the huntington protein. These tracts have been engineered intoDrosophilaphotoreceptor cells, causing rapid neurodegeneration that mirrors the human condition.

Date: 1998
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