Rapamycin attenuates the progression of tau pathology in P301S tau transgenic mice.

Altered autophagy contributes to the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease and other tauopathies, for which curative treatment options are still lacking. We have recently shown that trehalose reduces tau pathology in a tauopathy mouse model by stimulation of autophagy. Here, we studied the effect...

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Main Authors: Sefika Ozcelik, Graham Fraser, Perrine Castets, Véronique Schaeffer, Zhiva Skachokova, Karin Breu, Florence Clavaguera, Michael Sinnreich, Ludwig Kappos, Michel Goedert, Markus Tolnay, David Theo Winkler
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3646815?pdf=render