The size, shape and number of dendritic spines in the brain may play a major role in whether someone gets Alzheimer's disease, according to new research from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Dendritic spines are sub-units ...
Oct 25, 2017
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(HealthDay)—Serum tau is a promising novel biomarker for prediction of neurological outcome in patients with cardiac arrest, according to a study published online Oct. 5 in the Annals of Neurology.
Oct 18, 2017
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(HealthDay)—For clinically healthy older adults, subjective cognitive decline (SCD) is associated with increasing entorhinal cortical tau burden and β-amyloid (Aβ) burden, according to a study published online Oct. 2 ...
Oct 3, 2017
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In the brains of people with Alzheimer's disease, there are abnormal deposits of amyloid beta protein and tau protein, and swarms of activated immune cells. But scientists do not fully understand how these three major factors ...
Aug 29, 2017
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Dedicated to the study of Alzheimer's disease, University of Virginia biology professor George Bloom's lab has spent the last decade working to expand the scientific community's still-primitive understanding of the disease's ...
Jul 10, 2017
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The hallmark of many neurodegenerative diseases is the formation of protein aggregates, yet how and why these aggregates form remains a mystery. In a study publishing 6 July in the open access journal PLOS Biology by the ...
Jul 6, 2017
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Tau proteins are involved in more than twenty neurodegenerative diseases, including various forms of dementia. These proteins clump together in patients' brains to form neuronal tangles: protein aggregation that eventually ...
May 19, 2017
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A research team from the University of Plymouth, University of Southampton and the Alexander Fleming Biomedical Sciences Research Center, Vari, Greece, have studied two structurally-similar proteins in the adult brain and ...
May 19, 2017
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Nagoya University-led research identifies role for neuronal protein interaction in preventing frontotemporal lobar degeneration, a dementia that starts in middle age.
Feb 13, 2017
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Tau is a key brain protein involved in Alzheimer's disease and other brain diseases. Aggregates of Tau known as "neurofibrillary tangles" have been associated with nerve cell death and cognitive decline.
Jan 31, 2017
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