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Cerebrospinal fluid total tau concentration predicts clinical phenotype in Huntington's disease.
Journal of neurochemistry - 1 Oct 2016
Rodrigues Filipe Brogueira, Byrne Lauren, McColgan Peter, Robertson Nicola, Tabrizi Sarah J, Leavitt Blair R, Zetterberg Henrik, Wild Edward J
Abstract excerpt
Huntington's disease (HD) is a hereditary neurodegenerative condition with no therapeutic intervention known to alter disease progression, but several trials are ongoing and biomarkers of disease progression are needed. Tau is an axonal protein, often altered in neurodegeneration, and recent studies pointed out its role on HD neuropathology. Our goal was to study whether cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) tau is a...
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