Human mutant huntingtin disrupts vocal learning in transgenic songbirds

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 1617-1622

  Liu, Wan Chun ^a   Kohn, Jessica ^a   Szwed, Sarah K ^a   Pariser, Eben ^a   Sepe, Sharon ^a   Haripal, Bhagwattie ^a   Oshimori, Naoki ^a   Marsala, Martin ^b   Miyanohara, Atsushi ^c   Lee, Ramee ^d  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d CHDI Management Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUNTINGTIN; MUTANT HUNTINGTIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; HTT PROTEIN, HUMAN; NERVE PROTEIN;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; IMITATION; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STUTTERING; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; VOCALIZATION; VOICE DISORDER; ANIMAL; FINCH; GENETICS; HUMAN; LEARNING; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; SONGBIRD;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BASAL GANGLIA; FINCHES; HUMANS; LEARNING; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONS; SONGBIRDS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 84945438703     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: 15461726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.4133     Document Type: Article

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