Natural Sugar Trehalose Reduces Huntington's Disease In Mice

The natural sugar trehalose has been shown to relieve the symptoms of Huntington's disease in mice and could one day be used to treat the disease in humans, currently without cure, suggest Japanese researchers. Huntington's disease is an inherited illness that causes profound cognitive and movement problems. It affects 1 in 10,000 people. Researchers from the Riken Brain Science Institute in Saitama, Japan, used in vitro screening studies that showed a number of different disaccharides, simple sugars, can inhibit aggregation of a brain protein and increased survival in a cellular model of Huntington disease.

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