Tau exacerbates excitotoxic brain damage in an animal model of stroke

Tau exacerbates excitotoxic brain damage in an animal model of stroke

Excitotoxicity contributes to neuronal injury following stroke. Here the authors show that tau promotes excitotoxicity by a post-synaptic mechanism, involving site-specific control of ERK activation, in a mouse model of stroke.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Mian Bi, Amadeus Gladbach, Janet van Eersel, Arne Ittner, Magdalena Przybyla, Annika van Hummel, Sook Wern Chua, Julia van der Hoven, Wei S. Lee, Julius Müller, Jasneet Parmar, Georg von Jonquieres, Holly Stefen, Ernesto Guccione, Thomas Fath, Gary D. Housley, Matthias Klugmann, Yazi D. Ke, Lars M. Ittner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-09-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00618-0

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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00618-0

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