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Detection of Aggregation-Competent Tau in Neuron-Derived Extracellular Vesicles.
International journal of molecular sciences - 27 Feb 2018
Guix Francesc X, Corbett Grant T, Cha Diana J, Mustapic Maja, Liu Wen, Mengel David, Chen Zhicheng, Aikawa Elena, Young-Pearse Tracy, Kapogiannis Dimitrios, Selkoe Dennis J, Walsh Dominic M
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Progressive cerebral accumulation of tau aggregates is a defining feature of Alzheimer's disease (AD). A popular theory that seeks to explain the apparent spread of neurofibrillary tangle pathology proposes that aggregated tau is passed from neuron to neuron. Such a templated seeding process requires that the transferred tau contains the microtubule binding repeat domains that are necessary for aggregation. While...
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