The toxicity of tau in Alzheimer disease: turnover, targets and potential therapeutics

It has been almost 25 years since the initial discovery that tau was the primary component of the neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs) in Alzheimer disease (AD) brain. Although AD is defined by both β-amyloid (Aβ) pathology (Aβ plaques) and tau pathology (NFTs), whether or not tau played a critical role i...

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Main Authors: Pritchard, Susanne M, Dolan, Philip J, Vitkus, Alisa, Johnson, Gail VW
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2011
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4373356/