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Tracking Tau

08 June 2024

Tracking Tau

Imaging and tissue section analysis of brains from patients who died with a diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease maps, across stages of the disease, the protein tangles called tau neurofibrils that have been shown to begin to accumulate first in the brain region called the medial temporal lobe

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Written by Lindsey Goff

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