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. 1999 Sep 3;272(1):53-6.
doi: 10.1016/s0304-3940(99)00578-9.

Oxidative damage to mitochondrial DNA in Huntington's disease parietal cortex

M C Polidori  1 , P Mecocci, S E Browne, U Senin, M F Beal
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Oxidative damage to mitochondrial DNA in Huntington's disease parietal cortex

M C Polidori et al. Neurosci Lett. .

Abstract

Oxidative damage to DNA may play a role in both normal aging and in neurodegenerative diseases. Using a sensitive high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) assay, we examined concentrations of 8-hydroxy-2-deoxyguanosine (OH8dG) in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) isolated from frontal and parietal cerebral cortex and from cerebellum in 22 Huntington's disease (HD) patients and 15 age-matched normal controls. A significant increase in OH8dG in mtDNA of parietal cortex was found in HD patients as compared with controls, while there were no significant changes in frontal cortex or cerebellum. The present findings are consistent with regionally specific oxidative damage in HD, which may be a further evidence of a metabolic defect.

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