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Homocysteine-induced acute excitotoxicity in cerebellar granule cells in vitro is accompanied by PP2A-mediated dephosphorylation of tau.
Neurochemistry international - 1 Jan 2000
Kuszczyk Magdalena, Gordon-Krajcer Wanda, Lazarewicz Jerzy W
Abstract excerpt
Our results demonstrate that acute exposure of primary rat cerebellar granule cell cultures to homocysteine at millimolar concentrations induces a glutamate receptor-mediated decrease in tau protein phosphorylation, which is accompanied by excitotoxic neuronal damage. This contrasts with the previously reported hyperphosphorylation of tau in homocysteine-treated neurons, and with the assumption that...
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