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'DERANGED CALCIUM SIGNALING' CONTRIBUTES TO NEUROLOGICAL DISORDER, RESEARCHERS FIND
November 25, 2008
DALLAS, Nov. 25 -- The University of Texas at Southwestern Medical Center issued the following news release:

Defective calcium metabolism in nerve cells may play a major role in a fatal genetic neurological disorder that resembles Huntington's disease, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found in a mouse study.

The disease, called spinocerebellar ataxia 3 - also known as SCA3, or Machado-Joseph disease - is a genetic disorder that, like Huntington's, . . .

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