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Pro-apoptotic effects of tau mutations in chromosome 17 frontotemporal dementia and parkinsonism.
Neuroreport - 17 Jan 2000
Furukawa K, D'Souza I, Crudder C H, Onodera H, Itoyama Y, Poorkaj P, Bird T D, Schellenberg G D
Abstract excerpt
It was recently discovered that mutations of tau cause hereditary frontotemporal dementia and parkinsonism linked to chromosome 17 (FTDP-17). Here we report that cultured SH-SY5Y human neuroblastoma cells transfected with mutated tau genes are more vulnerable to apoptotic stimulus. Two kinds of mutations of tau causing FTDP-17 were examined in the present study: one was in exon 10 (N279K) and the other was in...
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