Tag Archives: Tau

In Alzheimer disease and related disorders, the microtubule-associated protein tau aggregates and forms cytoplasmic lesions that impair neuronal physiology at many levels. In addition to affecting the host neuron, tau aggregates also spread to neighboring, recipient cells where the misfolded ...

We are looking for highly motivated postdoctoral research fellows with a PhD in molecular biology and neuroscience field awarded within the past three years. These positions will be involved in functional characterization of extracellular vesicles (such as exosomes) in Alzheimer’s ...

While changes in cerebrospinal fluid Aβ and tau reliably flag the onset of Alzheimer’s disease, plasma levels of these proteins have remained frustratingly uninformative. At the annual Society for Neuroscience conference, held November 12-16 in San Diego, speakers once again ...

Alzfoum – Many researchers now believe that misfolded proteins spread from cell to cell across the brain, corrupting normal proteins as they go, yet exactly how this propagation would happen remains unclear. At the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting, held ...

We are looking for highly motivated postdoctoral research fellows with a PhD in molecular biology and neuroscience field awarded within the past three years. These positions will be involved in functional characterization of extracellular vesicles (such as exosomes) in Alzheimer’s ...

from Neurology Advisor by Alicia Ciccone Researchers may have uncovered a way to detect chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in living individuals with a blood test that detects plasma exosomal tau. The preliminary results were published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s ...

from Alzforum – Researchers have known for some time that the tau protein wears walking shoes; it can pass between neurons and march across interconnected regions of the brain. Microglial journeymen may facilitate these interneuronal excursions, according to a study ...