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SUBMITTER: Takahashi RH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2909664 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Takahashi Reisuke H RH Capetillo-Zarate Estibaliz E Lin Michael T MT Milner Teresa A TA Gouras Gunnar K GK
Neurobiology of aging 20080903 7
Although beta-amyloid (Abeta) plaques and tau neurofibrillary tangles are hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease (AD) neuropathology, loss of synapses is considered the best correlate of cognitive decline in AD, rather than plaques or tangles. How pathological Abeta and tau aggregation relate to each other and to alterations in synapses remains unclear. Since aberrant tau phosphorylation occurs in amyloid precursor protein (APP) Swedish mutant transgenic mice, and since neurofibrillary tangles develop ...[more]