Tau physiology and pathomechanisms in frontotemporal lobar degeneration

LG Bodea, A Eckert, LM Ittner, O Piguet… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) has been associated with toxic intracellular
aggregates of hyperphosphorylated tau (FTLD‐tau). Moreover, genetic studies identified …

Brief update on different roles of tau in neurodegeneration

A Ittner, YD Ke, J Eersel, A Gladbach, J Götz… - IUBMB …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Both Alzheimer's disease (AD) and almost every second case of frontotemporal lobar
degeneration (FTLD) are characterized by the deposition of hyperphosphorylated forms of …

[HTML][HTML] Frontotemporal lobar degeneration: old knowledge and new insight into the pathogenetic mechanisms of tau mutations

G Rossi, F Tagliavini - Frontiers in aging neuroscience, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) is a group of heterogeneous neurodegenerative
diseases which includes tauopathies. In the central nervous system (CNS) tau is the major …

Molecular pathogenesis of the tauopathies

J Götz, G Halliday, RM Nisbet - Annual Review of Pathology …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
The tauopathies constitute a group of diseases that have Tau inclusions in neurons or glia
as their common denominator. In this review, we describe the biochemical and histological …

Cellular and regional vulnerability in frontotemporal tauopathies

SL Forrest, JJ Kril, GM Halliday - Acta neuropathologica, 2019 - Springer
The frontotemporal tauopathies all deposit abnormal tau protein aggregates, but often of
only certain isoforms and in distinguishing pathologies of five main types (neuronal Pick …

[HTML][HTML] The role of extracellular Tau in the spreading of neurofibrillary pathology

M Medina, J Avila - Frontiers in cellular neuroscience, 2014 - frontiersin.org
The microtubule-associated protein (MAP) tau plays a critical role in the pathogenesis of
Alzheimer's disease (AD) and several related disorders collectively known as tauopathies …

[HTML][HTML] Tau in neurodegenerative disease

YL Gao, N Wang, FR Sun, XP Cao… - Annals of translational …, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Tau, a microtubule-associated protein, is the main component of the intracellular filamentous
inclusions that are involved in neurodegenerative diseases known as tauopathies, including …

The role of tau proteoforms in health and disease

Z Waheed, J Choudhary, FH Jatala, Fatimah… - Molecular …, 2023 - Springer
Tau is a microtubule-associated binding protein in the nervous system that is known for its
role in stabilizing microtubules throughout the nerve cell. It accumulates as β-sheet-rich …

The role of tau (MAPT) in frontotemporal dementia and related tauopathies

R Rademakers, M Cruts… - Human mutation, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Tau is a multifunctional protein that was originally identified as a microtubule‐associated
protein. In patients diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia and parkinsonism linked to …

Tauopathies as clinicopathological entities

DJ Irwin - Parkinsonism & related disorders, 2016 - Elsevier
Tauopathies are a class of neurodegenerative disorders characterized by neuronal and/or
glial inclusions composed of the microtubule-binding protein, tau. Several lines of evidence …