What renders TAU toxic

TAU is a microtubule-associated protein that under pathological conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease forms insoluble, filamentous aggregates. When twenty years after TAU’s discovery the first TAU transgenic mouse models were established, one declared goal that was achieved was the modelling of aut...

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Main Authors: Jürgen eGötz, Di eXia, Gerhard eLeinenga, Yee Lian eChew, Hannah eNicholas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2013-06-01
Series:Frontiers in Neurology
Subjects:
tau
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fneur.2013.00072/full