Ciliary neuotrophic factor

 No early onset of Huntington’s disease

Reference:

Rubinsztein DC, Leggo J., Chiano M., Korn S., Dodge A., Norbury G., Rosser E., Craufurd D.: Homozygotes and heterozygotes for ciliary neurotrophic factor null alleles do not show earlier onset of Huntington’s disease. Neurology 1997 Sep;49 (3):890-892.


METHODOLOGY ( FROM T-BASE)

CNTF (+/-) motor ne The CNTF (Ciliary NeuroTrophic Factor) targeting vector was constructed by subcloning a 9.5-kb Kpni-BglII fragment containing exon 1 of murine genomic CNTF DNA into....
CNTF (-/-) motor ne The CNTF (Ciliary NeuroTrophic Factor) targeting vector was constructed by subcloning a 9.5-kb Kpni-BglII fragment containing exon 1 of murine genomic CNTF DNA into....


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