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Vanita Chopra, PH.D.

TitleInstructor in Neurology
InstitutionMassachusetts General Hospital
DepartmentNeurology
AddressMassachusetts General Hospital
Neurology Rsch - 114-2001
114 16th Street
Charlestown MA 02129
Phone617/726-1267
Fax617/724-1480

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  1. Thomas B, Matson S, Chopra V, Sun L, Sharma S, Hersch S, Diana Rosas H, Scherzer C, Ferrante R, Matson W. A novel method for detecting 7-methyl guanine reveals aberrant methylation levels in Huntington disease. Anal Biochem. 2013 May 15; 436(2):112-20.
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  2. Chopra V, Quinti L, Kim J, Vollor L, Narayanan KL, Edgerly C, Cipicchio PM, Lauver MA, Choi SH, Silverman RB, Ferrante RJ, Hersch S, Kazantsev AG. The Sirtuin 2 Inhibitor AK-7 Is Neuroprotective in Huntington's Disease Mouse Models. Cell Rep. 2012 Dec 27; 2(6):1492-7.
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  3. Hu Y, Chopra V, Chopra R, Locascio JJ, Liao Z, Ding H, Zheng B, Matson WR, Ferrante RJ, Rosas HD, Hersch SM, Scherzer CR. Transcriptional modulator H2A histone family, member Y (H2AFY) marks Huntington disease activity in man and mouse. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2011 Oct 11; 108(41):17141-6.
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  4. Maxwell MM, Tomkinson EM, Nobles J, Wizeman JW, Amore AM, Quinti L, Chopra V, Hersch SM, Kazantsev AG. The Sirtuin 2 microtubule deacetylase is an abundant neuronal protein that accumulates in the aging CNS. Hum Mol Genet. 2011 Oct 15; 20(20):3986-96.
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  5. Quinti L, Chopra V, Rotili D, Valente S, Amore A, Franci G, Meade S, Valenza M, Altucci L, Maxwell MM, Cattaneo E, Hersch S, Mai A, Kazantsev A. Evaluation of histone deacetylases as drug targets in Huntington's disease models. Study of HDACs in brain tissues from R6/2 and CAG140 knock-in HD mouse models and human patients and in a neuronal HD cell model. PLoS Curr. 2010; 2.
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  6. Fox JH, Connor T, Chopra V, Dorsey K, Kama JA, Bleckmann D, Betschart C, Hoyer D, Frentzel S, Difiglia M, Paganetti P, Hersch SM. The mTOR kinase inhibitor Everolimus decreases S6 kinase phosphorylation but fails to reduce mutant huntingtin levels in brain and is not neuroprotective in the R6/2 mouse model of Huntington's disease. Mol Neurodegener. 2010; 5:26.
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  7. Weiss A, Abramowski D, Bibel M, Bodner R, Chopra V, DiFiglia M, Fox J, Kegel K, Klein C, Grueninger S, Hersch S, Housman D, Régulier E, Rosas HD, Stefani M, Zeitlin S, Bilbe G, Paganetti P. Single-step detection of mutant huntingtin in animal and human tissues: a bioassay for Huntington's disease. Anal Biochem. 2009 Dec 1; 395(1):8-15.
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  8. Chopra V, Fox JH, Lieberman G, Dorsey K, Matson W, Waldmeier P, Housman DE, Kazantsev A, Young AB, Hersch S. A small-molecule therapeutic lead for Huntington's disease: preclinical pharmacology and efficacy of C2-8 in the R6/2 transgenic mouse. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 Oct 16; 104(42):16685-9.
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  9. Fox JH, Kama JA, Lieberman G, Chopra R, Dorsey K, Chopra V, Volitakis I, Cherny RA, Bush AI, Hersch S. Mechanisms of copper ion mediated Huntington's disease progression. PLoS One. 2007; 2(3):e334.
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