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Huntington's Disease
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.... thirties and forties, destroys the
mind and body and leads to insanity and death within ten to twenty years. The
disease works by degenerating the ganglia (a pair of nerve clusters deep in the
brain that controls movement, thought, perception, and memory) and cortex by
using energy incorrectly. The brain will starve t.... Part 2 of Paper
....dred or more.
The gene for the disease is dominant, giving children of victims of Huntington's
disease a 50% chance of obtaining the disease.
Several other symptoms of the disease exist other than chorea. High levels of
lactic acid have been detected in patients of Huntington's disease as a bi-
product of the brain cells working too hard. Also, up to six times above the
normal level of an important brain brain protein, bFGF (or basic fibroblast
growth factor) in areas of the brain effected by t.... |
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