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Clinic-based cases with frontotemporal dementia show increased cerebrospinal fluid tau and high apolipoprotein E epsilon4 frequency, but no tau gene mutations.
Experimental neurology - 1 Apr 2001
Fabre S F, Forsell C, Viitanen M, Sjögren M, Wallin A, Blennow K, Blomberg M, Andersen C, Wahlund L O, Lannfelt L
Abstract excerpt
Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) belongs to a group of neurodegenerative disorders known as tauopathies, characterized by intracellular aggregation of hyperphosphorylated tau protein in the brain. Some tauopathies, like Alzheimer's disease (AD), consistently show increased levels of tau protein in c...
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