Extracellular Tau and Its Potential Role in the Propagation of Tau Pathology

The pathological aggregation of tau protein is a hallmark of a set of neurodegenerative diseases collectively referred to as tauopathies. Tau aggregates independently in each neuron, but this aggregation can also occur in a non-cell autonomous manner in which aggregated tau is transmitted from one c...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kaoru Yamada
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Neuroscience
Subjects:
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnins.2017.00667/full