Sensitive biochemical aggregate detection reveals aggregation onset before symptom development in cellular and murine models of Huntington's disease.

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Published in J Neurochem on November 06, 2007

Authors

Andreas Weiss1, Corinna Klein, Ben Woodman, Kirupa Sathasivam, Miriam Bibel, Etienne Régulier, Gillian P Bates, Paolo Paganetti

Author Affiliations

1: Neuroscience Discovery, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Basel, Switzerland.

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