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NEUROSCIENCE LETTERS
Volume 406, Issue 1-2, Pages 138-141Publisher
ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2006.07.036
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Huntington's disease; deep brain stimulation; globus pallidus externus; transgenic rat
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Altered activity of the globus pallidus externus (GPe) is responsible for at least part of the cognitive and motor symptoms of Huntington's disease (HD). In this study, we tested the hypothesis that bilateral globus pallidus (GP; equivalent of GPe in primates) deep brain stimulation (DBS) improves cognitive and motor symptoms in the first transgenic rat model of HD (tgHD rats). GP DBS with clinically relevant stimulation parameters resulted in a significant improvement of cognitive dysfunction and reduced the number of choreiform movements. This data indicate that GPe DBS can be used to treat cognitive and motor dysfunction in HD. (c) 2006 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
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