Passive immunization with phospho-tau antibodies reduces tau pathology and functional deficits in two distinct mouse tauopathy models.

In Alzheimer's disease (AD), an extensive accumulation of extracellular amyloid plaques and intraneuronal tau tangles, along with neuronal loss, is evident in distinct brain regions. Staging of tau pathology by postmortem analysis of AD subjects suggests a sequence of initiation and subsequent...

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Main Authors: Sethu Sankaranarayanan, Donna M Barten, Laurel Vana, Nino Devidze, Ling Yang, Gregory Cadelina, Nina Hoque, Lynn DeCarr, Stefanie Keenan, Alan Lin, Yang Cao, Bradley Snyder, Bin Zhang, Magdalena Nitla, Gregg Hirschfeld, Nestor Barrezueta, Craig Polson, Paul Wes, Vangipuram S Rangan, Angela Cacace, Charles F Albright, Jere Meredith, John Q Trojanowski, Virginia M-Y Lee, Kurt R Brunden, Michael Ahlijanian
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4416899?pdf=render