[Frontotemporal dementia: tau mutations, deposition, and molecular mechanisms of neuronal cell death].

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Exonic and intronic tau mutations have been described in a number of families of frontotemporal dementia and parkinsonism linked to chromosome 17. Most of missense mutations alter the ability of tau to promote microtubule assembly, whereas others influence splicing of exon10 and change the ratio of 3Rtau to 4Rtau isoform. In either case, filamentous hyperphosphorylated tau pathology in neurons and glial cells was...

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