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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- Image adapted from work by Sadhana Ravikumar and colleagues
- Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Image originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- Published in Nature Communications, June 2024
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