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Michael Flower

Neurology Academic Clinical Lecturer, UCL
Verified email at ucl.ac.uk
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Huntington disease: new insights into molecular pathogenesis and therapeutic opportunities

SJ Tabrizi, MD Flower, CA Ross, EJ Wild - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2020 - nature.com
Huntington disease (HD) is a neurodegenerative disease caused by CAG repeat expansion
in the huntingtin gene (HTT) and involves a complex web of pathogenic mechanisms …

Potential disease-modifying therapies for Huntington's disease: lessons learned and future opportunities

SJ Tabrizi, C Estevez-Fraga… - The Lancet …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Huntington's disease is the most frequent autosomal dominant neurodegenerative disorder;
however, no disease-modifying interventions are available for patients with this disease. The …

[BOOK][B] Theopompus of Chios: history and rhetoric in the fourth century BC

MA Flower, MA Flower - 1997 - books.google.com
Theopompus of Chios was one of the most important ancient Greek historians of the fourth
century BC. Although his work has survived only in fragments, it is still a rich and vital source …

[BOOK][B] The seer in ancient Greece

M Flower - 2008 - books.google.com
The seer (mantis), an expert in the art of divination, operated in ancient Greek society
through a combination of charismatic inspiration and diverse skills ranging from examining …

DNA repair pathways underlie a common genetic mechanism modulating onset in polyglutamine diseases

C Bettencourt, D Hensman‐Moss, M Flower… - Annals of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Objective The polyglutamine diseases, including Huntington's disease (HD) and multiple
spinocerebellar ataxias (SCAs), are among the commonest hereditary neurodegenerative …

[BOOK][B] Herodotus: Histories Book IX

MA Flower, J Marincola - 2002 - books.google.com
" Book IX of Herodotus' Histories provides the conclusion and climax to his work, as the
victories at Plataea and Mycale complete the improbable Greek victory over Persia. The …

Therapeutic strategies for Huntington's disease

C Estevez-Fraga, MD Flower… - Current opinion in …, 2020 - journals.lww.com
Huntingtin-lowering approaches act upstream of pathogenic mechanisms and therefore
have a high a priori likelihood of modifying disease course. ASOs are already in late-stage …

[HTML][HTML] A genetic association study of glutamine-encoding DNA sequence structures, somatic CAG expansion, and DNA repair gene variants, with Huntington …

M Ciosi, A Maxwell, SA Cumming, DJH Moss… - …, 2019 - thelancet.com
Background Huntington disease (HD) is caused by an unstable CAG/CAA repeat expansion
encoding a toxic polyglutamine tract. Here, we tested the hypotheses that HD outcomes are …

MSH3 modifies somatic instability and disease severity in Huntington's and myotonic dystrophy type 1

M Flower, V Lomeikaite, M Ciosi, S Cumming… - Brain, 2019 - academic.oup.com
The mismatch repair gene MSH3 has been implicated as a genetic modifier of the CAG·
CTG repeat expansion disorders Huntington's disease and myotonic dystrophy type 1. A …

[BOOK][B] Xenophon's Anabasis, or the Expedition of Cyrus

MA Flower - 2012 - books.google.com
Xenophon's Anabasis, or The Expedition of Cyrus, is one of the most exciting historical
narratives--as well as the most important autobiographical work--to have survived from …