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Developmental exposure to lead (Pb) alters the expression of the human tau gene and its products in a transgenic animal model.
Neurotoxicology - 1 Jul 2016
Dash M, Eid A, Subaiea G, Chang J, Deeb R, Masoud A, Renehan W E, Adem A, Zawia N H
Abstract excerpt
Tauopathies are a class of neurodegenerative diseases associated with the pathological aggregation of the tau protein in the human brain. The best known of these illnesses is Alzheimer's disease (AD); a disease where the microtubule associated protein tau (MAPT) becomes hyperphosphorylated (lowering its binding affinity to microtubules) and aggregates within neurons in the form of neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs)....
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