The physiological roles of tau and Aβ: implications for Alzheimer's disease pathology and therapeutics

SA Kent, TL Spires-Jones, CS Durrant - Acta neuropathologica, 2020 - Springer
Tau and amyloid beta (Aβ) are the prime suspects for driving pathology in Alzheimer's
disease (AD) and, as such, have become the focus of therapeutic development. Recent …

The role of tau in neurodegenerative diseases and its potential as a therapeutic target

MS Wolfe - Scientifica, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The abnormal deposition of proteins in and around neurons is a common pathological
feature of many neurodegenerative diseases. Among these pathological proteins, the …

The role of tau in Alzheimer's disease

JQ Trojanowski, VMY Lee - Medical Clinics, 2002 - medical.theclinics.com
Growing evidence over the past decade has led to the realization that many sporadic and
familial neurodegenerative diseases are characterized by distinct hallmark brain lesions …

Tau: the center of a signaling nexus in Alzheimer's disease

SS Khan, GS Bloom - Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Tau is a microtubule-associated protein whose misfolding, hyper-phosphorylation, loss of
normal function and toxic gain of function are linked to several neurodegenerative disorders …

Tau: Enabler of diverse brain disorders and target of rapidly evolving therapeutic strategies

CW Chang, E Shao, L Mucke - Science, 2021 - science.org
BACKGROUND The microtubule-associated protein tau has been implicated in the
pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease and a range of other neurodegenerative disorders …

[HTML][HTML] Interaction between Aβ and tau in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease

H Zhang, W Wei, M Zhao, L Ma, X Jiang… - … journal of biological …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Extracellular neuritic plaques composed of amyloid‑β (Aβ) protein and intracellular
neurofibrillary tangles containing phosphorylated tau protein are the two hallmark proteins of …

The complexity of tau in Alzheimer's disease

NN Naseri, H Wang, J Guo, M Sharma, W Luo - Neuroscience letters, 2019 - Elsevier
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by two major pathological lesions in the brain,
amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs) composed mainly of amyloid-β (Aβ) …

Tau biology and tau-directed therapies for Alzheimer's disease

L Bakota, R Brandt - Drugs, 2016 - Springer
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterised by a progressive loss of cognitive functions.
Histopathologically, AD is defined by the presence of extracellular amyloid plaques …

Role of tau protein in Alzheimer's disease: The prime pathological player

S Muralidar, SV Ambi, S Sekaran, D Thirumalai… - International journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a prevalently found tauopathy characterized by memory loss
and cognitive insufficiency. AD is an age-related neurodegenerative disease with two major …

The toxicity of tau in Alzheimer disease: turnover, targets and potential therapeutics

SM Pritchard, PJ Dolan, A Vitkus… - Journal of cellular and …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction• Pathological modifications of tau‐Tau phosphorylation‐Tau truncation‐NFTs
are not the primary toxic species• Tau turnover and possible deficits in Alzheimer disease• …