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Research Highlights

SPG 3A and cognitive impairment

Decrease in glucose metabolism in the brain

Spastin’s role in axon regeneration

No regrowth with mutated spastin

The Human Genome and how it works

Review of 30 papers by 500 scientists

SPG4 HSP study makes new findings

Wide ranging results

Fruit flies used to study Atlastin (SPG3A)

Role in healthy cell biology defined

Large study of SPG7 HSP

Many new findings emerge

Common factor in several forms of HSP

Bone morphogenic protein’s role in neurons

Stem Cell Research Project

Progress Report September 2012

Mice with HSP used in study

Drugs reverse certain effects

SPG10 HSP and CMT type 2 strongly linked

Same gene mutation may cause both

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Welcome to the HSP Research Foundation - created in 2005 to find a cure for Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia - an inherited, degenerative disease affecting mainly the legs, causing muscle weakness, spasticity and severely impairing walking. Read more »

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