Anti-inflammatory treatment with acetylsalicylate or rofecoxib is not neuroprotective in Huntington's disease transgenic mice

Inflammatory mechanisms have been implicated in the pathogenesis of Huntington's disease (HD). Possible benefits of anti-inflammatory treatments include improved folding of mutant huntingtin mediated through chaperones, reduction of destructive cellular and humoral inflammatory pathways, and re...

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Main Authors: Fran Norflus, Agnes Nanje, Claire-Anne Gutekunst, Geming Shi, Joshua Cohen, Michelle Bejarano, Jonathan Fox, Robert J. Ferrante, Steven M. Hersch
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2004-11-01
Series:Neurobiology of Disease
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0969996104001585