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SUBMITTER: Blum D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6049521 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Blum David D Chern Yijuang Y Domenici Maria Rosaria MR Buée Luc L Lin Chien-Yu CY Rea William W Ferré Sergi S Popoli Patrizia P
Journal of caffeine and adenosine research 20180601 2
Huntington's disease (HD) is a hereditary neurodegenerative disorder caused by a mutation in the IT15 gene that encodes for the huntingtin protein. Mutated hungtingtin, although widely expressed in the brain, predominantly affects striato-pallidal neurons, particularly enriched with adenosine A<sub>2A</sub> receptors (A<sub>2A</sub>R), suggesting a possible involvement of adenosine and A<sub>2A</sub>R is the pathogenesis of HD. In fact, polymorphic variation in the <i>ADORA2A</i> gene influences ...[more]