Saturday, 2 March 2019

Tauopathies

Types

  • Alzheimer disease
  • Diffuse neurofibrillary tangles with calcification
  • supranuclear palsy, Progressive

 

Pathophysiology 

  • Tau proteins (τ proteins) have the function of stabilising microtubules. They are produced in abundance within neurons of the central nervous system.
  • These diseases share the pathological finding of Tau protein tangles.

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