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Leavitt Lab Publications

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1   Sivananthan SN, Leavitt BR. Cystamine and ethyl-eicosapentaenoic acid treatment fail to prevent malonate-induced striatal toxicity in mice. (2011) PMID 21741126

2   Review   Weir DW, Sturrock A, Leavitt BR. Development of biomarkers for Huntington's disease. Lancet Neurol 10(6):573-90. (2011) PMID 21601164

3   Hobbs NZ, Pedrick AV, Say MJ, Frost C, Dar Santos R, Coleman A, Sturrock A, Craufurd D, Stout JC, Leavitt BR, Barnes J, Tabrizi SJ, Scahill RI. The structural involvement of the cingulate cortex in premanifest and early Huntington's disease. (2011) PMID 21557312

4   Tabrizi SJ, Scahill RI, Durr A, Roos RA, Leavitt BR, Jones R, Landwehrmeyer GB, Fox NC, Johnson H, Hicks SL, Kennard C, Craufurd D, Frost C, Langbehn DR, Reilmann R, Stout JC, . Biological and clinical changes in premanifest and early stage Huntington's disease in the TRACK-HD study: the 12-month longitudinal analysis. Lancet Neurol 10(1):31-42. (2011) PMID 21130037

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5   Bechtel N, Scahill RI, Rosas HD, Acharya T, van den Bogaard SJ, Jauffret C, Say MJ, Sturrock A, Johnson H, Onorato CE, Salat DH, Durr A, Leavitt BR, Roos RA, Landwehrmeyer GB, Langbehn DR, Stout JC, Tabrizi SJ, Reilmann R. Tapping linked to function and structure in premanifest and symptomatic Huntington disease. (2010) PMID 21068430

6   Sturrock A, Laule C, Decolongon J, Dar Santos R, Coleman AJ, Creighton S, Bechtel N, Reilmann R, Hayden MR, Tabrizi SJ, Mackay AL, Leavitt BR. Magnetic resonance spectroscopy biomarkers in premanifest and early Huntington disease. Neurology 75(19):1702-10. (2010) PMID 21060093

7   Metzler M, Gan L, Mazarei G, Graham RK, Liu L, Bissada N, Lu G, Leavitt BR, Hayden MR. Phosphorylation of huntingtin at Ser421 in YAC128 neurons is associated with protection of YAC128 neurons from NMDA-mediated excitotoxicity and is modulated by PP1 and PP2A. J. Neurosci. 30(43):14318-29. (2010) PMID 20980587

8   Lahiri N, Tabrizi SJ, Kennard C, Durr A, Leavitt BR, Fox N, Roos RA. POMD07 Quantitative assessment of biological and clinical manifestations of Huntington's disease before and after diagnosis--the TRACK-HD study. J. Neurol. Neurosurg. Psychiatr. 81(11):e59. (2010) PMID 20972159

9   Review   Sturrock A, Leavitt BR. The clinical and genetic features of Huntington disease. J Geriatr Psychiatry Neurol 23(4):243-59. (2010) PMID 20923757

10   Petkau TL, Neal SJ, Orban PC, MacDonald JL, Hill AM, Lu G, Feldman HH, Mackenzie IR, Leavitt BR. Progranulin expression in the developing and adult murine brain. J. Comp. Neurol. 518(19):3931-47. (2010) PMID 20737593

11   Pouladi MA, Xie Y, Skotte NH, Ehrnhoefer DE, Graham RK, Kim JE, Bissada N, Yang XW, Paganetti P, Friedlander RM, Leavitt BR, Hayden MR. Full-length huntingtin levels modulate body weight by influencing insulin-like growth factor 1 expression. Hum. Mol. Genet. 19(8):1528-38. (2010) PMID 20097678

12   Becanovic K, Pouladi MA, Lim RS, Kuhn A, Pavlidis P, Luthi-Carter R, Hayden MR, Leavitt BR. Transcriptional changes in Huntington disease identified using genome-wide expression profiling and cross-platform analysis. Hum. Mol. Genet. 19(8):1438-52. (2010) PMID 20089533

13   Mazarei G, Neal SJ, Becanovic K, Luthi-Carter R, Simpson EM, Leavitt BR. Expression analysis of novel striatal-enriched genes in Huntington disease. Hum. Mol. Genet. 19(4):609-22. (2010) PMID 19934114

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14   Tabrizi SJ, Langbehn DR, Leavitt BR, Roos RA, Durr A, Craufurd D, Kennard C, Hicks SL, Fox NC, Scahill RI, Borowsky B, Tobin AJ, Rosas HD, Johnson H, Reilmann R, Landwehrmeyer B, Stout JC, . Biological and clinical manifestations of Huntington's disease in the longitudinal TRACK-HD study: cross-sectional analysis of baseline data. 8(9):791-801. (2009) PMID 19646924

15   Yeretssian G, Doiron K, Shao W, Leavitt BR, Hayden MR, Nicholson DW, Saleh M. Gender differences in expression of the human caspase-12 long variant determines susceptibility to Listeria monocytogenes infection. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 106(22):9016-20. (2009) PMID 19447924

16   Joshi PR, Wu NP, André VM, Cummings DM, Cepeda C, Joyce JA, Carroll JB, Leavitt BR, Hayden MR, Levine MS, Bamford NS. Age-dependent alterations of corticostriatal activity in the YAC128 mouse model of Huntington disease. J. Neurosci. 29(8):2414-27. (2009) PMID 19244517

17   Graham RK, Pouladi MA, Joshi P, Lu G, Deng Y, Wu NP, Figueroa BE, Metzler M, André VM, Slow EJ, Raymond L, Friedlander R, Levine MS, Leavitt BR, Hayden MR. Differential susceptibility to excitotoxic stress in YAC128 mouse models of Huntington disease between initiation and progression of disease. J. Neurosci. 29(7):2193-204. (2009) PMID 19228972

18   Review   Hayden MR, Leavitt BR, Yasothan U, Kirkpatrick P. Tetrabenazine. 8(1):17-8. (2009) PMID 19116624

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19   Fang Q, Strand A, Law W, Faca VM, Fitzgibon MP, Hamel N, Houle B, Liu X, May DH, Poschmann G, Roy L, Stühler K, Ying W, Zhang J, Zheng Z, Bergeron JJ, Hanash S, He F, Leavitt BR, Meyer HE, Qian X, McIntosh MW. Brain-specific proteins decline in the cerebrospinal fluid of humans with Huntington's disease. Mol. Cell Proteomics (2008) PMID 18984577

20   Björkqvist M, Wild EJ, Thiele J, Silvestroni A, Andre R, Lahiri N, Raibon E, Lee RV, Benn CL, Soulet D, Magnusson A, Woodman B, Landles C, Pouladi MA, Hayden MR, Khalili-Shirazi A, Lowdell MW, Brundin P, Bates GP, Leavitt BR, Möller T, Tabrizi SJ. A novel pathogenic pathway of immune activation detectable before clinical onset in Huntington's disease. J. Exp. Med. 205(8):1869-77. (2008) PMID 18625748

21   Semaka A, Warby S, Leavitt BR, Hayden MR. Re: Autopsy-proven Huntington's disease with 29 trinucleotide repeats. Mov. Disord. 23(12):1794-5; author reply 1793. (2008) PMID 18548612

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22   Chapter   Orban P, Devon RS, Hayden MR, Leavitt BR. Chapter 15 Juvenile amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. 82:301-12. (2007) PMID 18808900

23   Björkqvist M, Leavitt BR, Nielsen JE, Landwehrmeyer B, Ecker D, Mulder H, Brundin P, Petersén A. Cocaine- and amphetamine-regulated transcript is increased in Huntington disease. Mov. Disord. 22(13):1952-4. (2007) PMID 17722045

24   Wong D, Dwinnel M, Schulzer M, Nimmo M, Leavitt BR, Spacey SD. Ataxia and the role of antigliadin antibodies. 34(2):193-6. (2007) PMID 17598597

25   Dalrymple A, Wild EJ, Joubert R, Sathasivam K, Björkqvist M, Petersén A, Jackson GS, Isaacs JD, Kristiansen M, Bates GP, Leavitt BR, Keir G, Ward M, Tabrizi SJ. Proteomic profiling of plasma in Huntington's disease reveals neuroinflammatory activation and biomarker candidates. J. Proteome Res. 6(7):2833-40. (2007) PMID 17552550

26   Kuhn A, Goldstein DR, Hodges A, Strand AD, Sengstag T, Kooperberg C, Becanovic K, Pouladi MA, Sathasivam K, Cha JH, Hannan AJ, Hayden MR, Leavitt BR, Dunnett SB, Ferrante RJ, Albin R, Shelbourne P, Delorenzi M, Augood SJ, Faull RL, Olson JM, Bates GP, Jones L, Luthi-Carter R. Mutant huntingtin's effects on striatal gene expression in mice recapitulate changes observed in human Huntington's disease brain and do not differ with mutant huntingtin length or wild-type huntingtin dosage. Hum. Mol. Genet. 16(15):1845-61. (2007) PMID 17519223

27   Butland SL, Devon RS, Huang Y, Mead CL, Meynert AM, Neal SJ, Lee SS, Wilkinson A, Yang GS, Yuen MM, Hayden MR, Holt RA, Leavitt BR, Ouellette BF. CAG-encoded polyglutamine length polymorphism in the human genome. BMC Genomics 8:126. (2007) PMID 17519034

28   Van Raamsdonk JM, Murphy Z, Selva DM, Hamidizadeh R, Pearson J, Petersén A, Björkqvist M, Muir C, Mackenzie IR, Hammond GL, Vogl AW, Hayden MR, Leavitt BR. Testicular degeneration in Huntington disease. Neurobiol. Dis. 26(3):512-20. (2007) PMID 17433700

29   Van Raamsdonk JM, Metzler M, Slow E, Pearson J, Schwab C, Carroll J, Graham RK, Leavitt BR, Hayden MR. Phenotypic abnormalities in the YAC128 mouse model of Huntington disease are penetrant on multiple genetic backgrounds and modulated by strain. Neurobiol. Dis. 26(1):189-200. (2007) PMID 17276692

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30   Van Raamsdonk JM, Pearson J, Murphy Z, Hayden MR, Leavitt BR. Wild-type huntingtin ameliorates striatal neuronal atrophy but does not prevent other abnormalities in the YAC128 mouse model of Huntington disease. 7:80. (2006) PMID 17147801

31   Zhang Y, Leavitt BR, van Raamsdonk JM, Dragatsis I, Goldowitz D, MacDonald ME, Hayden MR, Friedlander RM. Huntingtin inhibits caspase-3 activation. EMBO J. 25(24):5896-906. (2006) PMID 17124493

32   Leavitt BR, Hayden MR. Is tetrabenazine safe and effective for suppressing chorea in Huntington's disease? 2(10):536-7. (2006) PMID 16990826

33   Mackenzie IR, Butland SL, Devon RS, Dwosh E, Feldman H, Lindholm C, Neal SJ, Ouellette BF, Leavitt BR. Familial frontotemporal dementia with neuronal intranuclear inclusions is not a polyglutamine expansion disease. 6:32. (2006) PMID 16945149

34   Björkqvist M, Petersén A, Nielsen J, Ecker D, Mulder H, Hayden MR, Landwehrmeyer B, Brundin P, Leavitt BR. Cerebrospinal fluid levels of orexin-A are not a clinically useful biomarker for Huntington disease. Clin. Genet. 70(1):78-9. (2006) PMID 16813610

35   Graham RK, Deng Y, Slow EJ, Haigh B, Bissada N, Lu G, Pearson J, Shehadeh J, Bertram L, Murphy Z, Warby SC, Doty CN, Roy S, Wellington CL, Leavitt BR, Raymond LA, Nicholson DW, Hayden MR. Cleavage at the caspase-6 site is required for neuronal dysfunction and degeneration due to mutant huntingtin. Cell 125(6):1179-91. (2006) PMID 16777606

36   Devon RS, Orban PC, Gerrow K, Barbieri MA, Schwab C, Cao LP, Helm JR, Bissada N, Cruz-Aguado R, Davidson TL, Witmer J, Metzler M, Lam CK, Tetzlaff W, Simpson EM, McCaffery JM, El-Husseini AE, Leavitt BR, Hayden MR. Als2-deficient mice exhibit disturbances in endosome trafficking associated with motor behavioral abnormalities. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 103(25):9595-600. (2006) PMID 16769894

37   Guidetti P, Bates GP, Graham RK, Hayden MR, Leavitt BR, MacDonald ME, Slow EJ, Wheeler VC, Woodman B, Schwarcz R. Elevated brain 3-hydroxykynurenine and quinolinate levels in Huntington disease mice. Neurobiol. Dis. 23(1):190-7. (2006) PMID 16697652

38   Van Raamsdonk JM, Gibson WT, Pearson J, Murphy Z, Lu G, Leavitt BR, Hayden MR. Body weight is modulated by levels of full-length huntingtin. Hum. Mol. Genet. 15(9):1513-23. (2006) PMID 16571604

39   Leavitt BR, van Raamsdonk JM, Shehadeh J, Fernandes H, Murphy Z, Graham RK, Wellington CL, Raymond LA, Hayden MR. Wild-type huntingtin protects neurons from excitotoxicity. J. Neurochem. 96(4):1121-9. (2006) PMID 16417581

40   Graham RK, Slow EJ, Deng Y, Bissada N, Lu G, Pearson J, Shehadeh J, Leavitt BR, Raymond LA, Hayden MR. Levels of mutant huntingtin influence the phenotypic severity of Huntington disease in YAC128 mouse models. Neurobiol. Dis. 21(2):444-55. (2006) PMID 16230019

41   Shehadeh J, Fernandes HB, Zeron Mullins MM, Graham RK, Leavitt BR, Hayden MR, Raymond LA. Striatal neuronal apoptosis is preferentially enhanced by NMDA receptor activation in YAC transgenic mouse model of Huntington disease. Neurobiol. Dis. 21(2):392-403. (2006) PMID 16165367

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42   Van Raamsdonk JM, Murphy Z, Slow EJ, Leavitt BR, Hayden MR. Selective degeneration and nuclear localization of mutant huntingtin in the YAC128 mouse model of Huntington disease. Hum. Mol. Genet. 14(24):3823-35. (2005) PMID 16278236

43   Van Raamsdonk JM, Pearson J, Bailey CD, Rogers DA, Johnson GV, Hayden MR, Leavitt BR. Cystamine treatment is neuroprotective in the YAC128 mouse model of Huntington disease. J. Neurochem. 95(1):210-20. (2005) PMID 16181425

44   Van Raamsdonk JM, Pearson J, Rogers DA, Lu G, Barakauskas VE, Barr AM, Honer WG, Hayden MR, Leavitt BR. Ethyl-EPA treatment improves motor dysfunction, but not neurodegeneration in the YAC128 mouse model of Huntington disease. Exp. Neurol. 196(2):266-72. (2005) PMID 16129433

45   Slow EJ, Graham RK, Osmand AP, Devon RS, Lu G, Deng Y, Pearson J, Vaid K, Bissada N, Wetzel R, Leavitt BR, Hayden MR. Absence of behavioral abnormalities and neurodegeneration in vivo despite widespread neuronal huntingtin inclusions. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 102(32):11402-7. (2005) PMID 16076956

46   Puri BK, Leavitt BR, Hayden MR, Ross CA, Rosenblatt A, Greenamyre JT, Hersch S, Vaddadi KS, Sword A, Horrobin DF, Manku M, Murck H. Ethyl-EPA in Huntington disease: a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial. Neurology 65(2):286-92. (2005) PMID 16043801

47   Pinto JT, Van Raamsdonk JM, Leavitt BR, Hayden MR, Jeitner TM, Thaler HT, Krasnikov BF, Cooper AJ. Treatment of YAC128 mice and their wild-type littermates with cystamine does not lead to its accumulation in plasma or brain: implications for the treatment of Huntington disease. J. Neurochem. 94(4):1087-101. (2005) PMID 15992377

48   Missirlis PI, Mead CL, Butland SL, Ouellette BF, Devon RS, Leavitt BR, Holt RA. Satellog: a database for the identification and prioritization of satellite repeats in disease association studies. BMC Bioinformatics 6:145. (2005) PMID 15949044

49   Van Raamsdonk JM, Pearson J, Slow EJ, Hossain SM, Leavitt BR, Hayden MR. Cognitive dysfunction precedes neuropathology and motor abnormalities in the YAC128 mouse model of Huntington's disease. J. Neurosci. 25(16):4169-80. (2005) PMID 15843620

50   Van Raamsdonk JM, Pearson J, Rogers DA, Bissada N, Vogl AW, Hayden MR, Leavitt BR. Loss of wild-type huntingtin influences motor dysfunction and survival in the YAC128 mouse model of Huntington disease. Hum. Mol. Genet. 14(10):1379-92. (2005) PMID 15829505

51   Devon RS, Schwab C, Topp JD, Orban PC, Yang YZ, Pape TD, Helm JR, Davidson TL, Rogers DA, Gros-Louis F, Rouleau G, Horazdovsky BF, Leavitt BR, Hayden MR. Cross-species characterization of the ALS2 gene and analysis of its pattern of expression in development and adulthood. Neurobiol. Dis. 18(2):243-57. (2005) PMID 15686953

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52   Hagerman RJ, Leavitt BR, Farzin F, Jacquemont S, Greco CM, Brunberg JA, Tassone F, Hessl D, Harris SW, Zhang L, Jardini T, Gane LW, Ferranti J, Ruiz L, Leehey MA, Grigsby J, Hagerman PJ. Fragile-X-associated tremor/ataxia syndrome (FXTAS) in females with the FMR1 premutation. Am. J. Hum. Genet. 74(5):1051-6. (2004) PMID 15065016

53   Zeron MM, Fernandes HB, Krebs C, Shehadeh J, Wellington CL, Leavitt BR, Baimbridge KG, Hayden MR, Raymond LA. Potentiation of NMDA receptor-mediated excitotoxicity linked with intrinsic apoptotic pathway in YAC transgenic mouse model of Huntington's disease. Mol. Cell. Neurosci. 25(3):469-79. (2004) PMID 15033175

54   Hermel E, Gafni J, Propp SS, Leavitt BR, Wellington CL, Young JE, Hackam AS, Logvinova AV, Peel AL, Chen SF, Hook V, Singaraja R, Krajewski S, Goldsmith PC, Ellerby HM, Hayden MR, Bredesen DE, Ellerby LM. Specific caspase interactions and amplification are involved in selective neuronal vulnerability in Huntington's disease. Cell Death Differ. 11(4):424-38. (2004) PMID 14713958

55   Zala D, Bensadoun JC, Pereira de Almeida L, Leavitt BR, Gutekunst CA, Aebischer P, Hayden MR, Déglon N. Long-term lentiviral-mediated expression of ciliary neurotrophic factor in the striatum of Huntington's disease transgenic mice. Exp. Neurol. 185(1):26-35. (2004) PMID 14697316

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56   Li L, Fan M, Icton CD, Chen N, Leavitt BR, Hayden MR, Murphy TH, Raymond LA. Role of NR2B-type NMDA receptors in selective neurodegeneration in Huntington disease. Neurobiol. Aging 24(8):1113-21. (2003) PMID 14643383

57   Zhang Y, Li M, Drozda M, Chen M, Ren S, Mejia Sanchez RO, Leavitt BR, Cattaneo E, Ferrante RJ, Hayden MR, Friedlander RM. Depletion of wild-type huntingtin in mouse models of neurologic diseases. J. Neurochem. 87(1):101-6. (2003) PMID 12969257

58   Zuccato C, Tartari M, Crotti A, Goffredo D, Valenza M, Conti L, Cataudella T, Leavitt BR, Hayden MR, Timmusk T, Rigamonti D, Cattaneo E. Huntingtin interacts with REST/NRSF to modulate the transcription of NRSE-controlled neuronal genes. Nat. Genet. 35(1):76-83. (2003) PMID 12881722

59   Slow EJ, van Raamsdonk J, Rogers D, Coleman SH, Graham RK, Deng Y, Oh R, Bissada N, Hossain SM, Yang YZ, Li XJ, Simpson EM, Gutekunst CA, Leavitt BR, Hayden MR. Selective striatal neuronal loss in a YAC128 mouse model of Huntington disease. Hum. Mol. Genet. 12(13):1555-67. (2003) PMID 12812983

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60   Singaraja RR, Hadano S, Metzler M, Givan S, Wellington CL, Warby S, Yanai A, Gutekunst CA, Leavitt BR, Yi H, Fichter K, Gan L, McCutcheon K, Chopra V, Michel J, Hersch SM, Ikeda JE, Hayden MR. HIP14, a novel ankyrin domain-containing protein, links huntingtin to intracellular trafficking and endocytosis. Hum. Mol. Genet. 11(23):2815-28. (2002) PMID 12393793

61   Wellington CL, Ellerby LM, Gutekunst CA, Rogers D, Warby S, Graham RK, Loubser O, van Raamsdonk J, Singaraja R, Yang YZ, Gafni J, Bredesen D, Hersch SM, Leavitt BR, Roy S, Nicholson DW, Hayden MR. Caspase cleavage of mutant huntingtin precedes neurodegeneration in Huntington's disease. J. Neurosci. 22(18):7862-72. (2002) PMID 12223539

62   Chan EY, Luthi-Carter R, Strand A, Solano SM, Hanson SA, DeJohn MM, Kooperberg C, Chase KO, DiFiglia M, Young AB, Leavitt BR, Cha JH, Aronin N, Hayden MR, Olson JM. Increased huntingtin protein length reduces the number of polyglutamine-induced gene expression changes in mouse models of Huntington's disease. Hum. Mol. Genet. 11(17):1939-51. (2002) PMID 12165556

63   Ariano MA, Aronin N, Difiglia M, Tagle DA, Sibley DR, Leavitt BR, Hayden MR, Levine MS. Striatal neurochemical changes in transgenic models of Huntington's disease. J. Neurosci. Res. 68(6):716-29. (2002) PMID 12111832

64   Panov AV, Gutekunst CA, Leavitt BR, Hayden MR, Burke JR, Strittmatter WJ, Greenamyre JT. Early mitochondrial calcium defects in Huntington's disease are a direct effect of polyglutamines. Nat. Neurosci. 5(8):731-6. (2002) PMID 12089530

65   Zeron MM, Hansson O, Chen N, Wellington CL, Leavitt BR, Brundin P, Hayden MR, Raymond LA. Increased sensitivity to N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor-mediated excitotoxicity in a mouse model of Huntington's disease. Neuron 33(6):849-60. (2002) PMID 11906693

66   Gervais FG, Singaraja R, Xanthoudakis S, Gutekunst CA, Leavitt BR, Metzler M, Hackam AS, Tam J, Vaillancourt JP, Houtzager V, Rasper DM, Roy S, Hayden MR, Nicholson DW. Recruitment and activation of caspase-8 by the Huntingtin-interacting protein Hip-1 and a novel partner Hippi. Nat. Cell Biol. 4(2):95-105. (2002) PMID 11788820

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67   Cepeda C, Ariano MA, Calvert CR, Flores-Hernández J, Chandler SH, Leavitt BR, Hayden MR, Levine MS. NMDA receptor function in mouse models of Huntington disease. J. Neurosci. Res. 66(4):525-39. (2001) PMID 11746372

68   Singaraja RR, Bocher V, James ER, Clee SM, Zhang LH, Leavitt BR, Tan B, Brooks-Wilson A, Kwok A, Bissada N, Yang YZ, Liu G, Tafuri SR, Fievet C, Wellington CL, Staels B, Hayden MR. Human ABCA1 BAC transgenic mice show increased high density lipoprotein cholesterol and ApoAI-dependent efflux stimulated by an internal promoter containing liver X receptor response elements in intron 1. J. Biol. Chem. 276(36):33969-79. (2001) PMID 11423537

69   Zuccato C, Ciammola A, Rigamonti D, Leavitt BR, Goffredo D, Conti L, MacDonald ME, Friedlander RM, Silani V, Hayden MR, Timmusk T, Sipione S, Cattaneo E. Loss of huntingtin-mediated BDNF gene transcription in Huntington's disease. Science 293(5529):493-8. (2001) PMID 11408619

70   Leavitt BR, Guttman JA, Hodgson JG, Kimel GH, Singaraja R, Vogl AW, Hayden MR. Wild-type huntingtin reduces the cellular toxicity of mutant huntingtin in vivo. Am. J. Hum. Genet. 68(2):313-24. (2001) PMID 11133364

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71   Wellington CL, Leavitt BR, Hayden MR. Huntington disease: new insights on the role of huntingtin cleavage. J. Neural Transm. Suppl. (2000) PMID 11128600

72   Shin JJ, Fricker-Gates RA, Perez FA, Leavitt BR, Zurakowski D, Macklis JD. Transplanted neuroblasts differentiate appropriately into projection neurons with correct neurotransmitter and receptor phenotype in neocortex undergoing targeted projection neuron degeneration. J. Neurosci. 20(19):7404-16. (2000) PMID 11007899

73   Clarke G, Collins RA, Leavitt BR, Andrews DF, Hayden MR, Lumsden CJ, McInnes RR. A one-hit model of cell death in inherited neuronal degenerations. Nature 406(6792):195-9. (2000) PMID 10910361

74   Magavi SS, Leavitt BR, Macklis JD. Induction of neurogenesis in the neocortex of adult mice. Nature 405(6789):951-5. (2000) PMID 10879536

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75   Leavitt BR, Wellington CL, Hayden MR. Recent insights into the molecular pathogenesis of Huntington disease. 19(4):385-95. (1999) PMID 10716661

76   Catapano LA, Sheen VL, Leavitt BR, Macklis JD. Differentiation of transplanted neural precursors varies regionally in adults striatum. Neuroreport 10(18):3971-7. (1999) PMID 10716243

77   Hodgson JG, Agopyan N, Gutekunst CA, Leavitt BR, LePiane F, Singaraja R, Smith DJ, Bissada N, McCutcheon K, Nasir J, Jamot L, Li XJ, Stevens ME, Rosemond E, Roder JC, Phillips AG, Rubin EM, Hersch SM, Hayden MR. A YAC mouse model for Huntington's disease with full-length mutant huntingtin, cytoplasmic toxicity, and selective striatal neurodegeneration. Neuron 23(1):181-92. (1999) PMID 10402204

78   Leavitt BR, Hernit-Grant CS, Macklis JD. Mature astrocytes transform into transitional radial glia within adult mouse neocortex that supports directed migration of transplanted immature neurons. Exp. Neurol. 157(1):43-57. (1999) PMID 10222107

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79   Maysinger D, Leavitt BR, Zorc B, Butula I, Fernandes LG, Ribeiro-da-Silva A. Inhibition of high affinity choline uptake in the rat brain by neurotoxins: effect of monosialoganglioside GM1. Neurochem. Int. 20(3):289-97. (1992) PMID 1304326