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Implicating calpain in tau-mediated toxicity in vivo.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2011
Reinecke James B, DeVos Sarah L, McGrath James P, Shepard Amanda M, Goncharoff Dustin K, Tait Don N, Fleming Samantha R, Vincent Michael P, Steinhilb Michelle L
Abstract excerpt
Alzheimer's disease and other related neurodegenerative disorders known as tauopathies are characterized by the accumulation of abnormally phosphorylated and aggregated forms of the microtubule-associated protein tau. Several laboratories have identified a 17 kD proteolytic fragment of tau in degenerating neurons and in numerous cell culture models that is generated by calpain cleavage and speculated to...
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