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Tau filament formation and associative memory deficit in aged mice expressing mutant (R406W) human tau.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 15 Oct 2002
Tatebayashi Yoshitaka, Miyasaka Tomohiro, Chui De-Hua, Akagi Takumi, Mishima Ken-ichi, Iwasaki Katsunori, Fujiwara Michihiro, Tanemura Kentaro, Murayama Miyuki, Ishiguro Koichi, Planel Emmanuel, Sato Shinji, Hashikawa Tsutomu, Takashima Akihiko
Abstract excerpt
The R406W tau mutation found in frontotemporal dementia and parkinsonism linked to chromosome 17 (FTDP-17) causes a hereditary tauopathy clinically resembling Alzheimer's disease. Expression of modest levels of the longest human tau isoform with this mutation under the control of the alpha-calciu...
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