Title : Reinstating aberrant mTORC1 activity in Huntington's disease mice improves disease phenotypes.

Pub. Date : 2015 Jan 21

PMID : 25556834






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1 Here, we provide evidence that impaired striatal mTORC1 activity underlies varied metabolic and degenerative phenotypes in HD brain and show that introducing the constitutively active form of the mTORC1 regulator, Rheb, into HD mouse brain, alleviates mitochondrial dysfunction, aberrant cholesterol homeostasis, striatal atrophy, impaired dopamine signaling, and increases autophagy. Dopamine CREB regulated transcription coactivator 1 Mus musculus