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Sodium selenate mitigates tau pathology, neurodegeneration, and functional deficits in Alzheimer's disease models.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 3 Aug 2010
van Eersel Janet, Ke Yazi D, Liu Xin, Delerue Fabien, Kril Jillian J, Götz Jürgen, Ittner Lars M
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Alzheimer's disease (AD) brains are characterized by amyloid-beta-containing plaques and hyperphosphorylated tau-containing neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs); however, in frontotemporal dementia, the tau pathology manifests in the absence of overt amyloid-beta plaques. Therapeutic strategies so far have primarily been targeting amyloid-beta, although those targeting tau are only slowly beginning to emerge. Here, we...
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