News tagged with tau proteins


Pioneer biomarker test to diagnose or rule out Alzheimer's disease

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A test capable of confirming or ruling out Alzheimer's disease has been validated and standardized by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. By measuring cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) concentrations ...





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Scientists make headway in understanding Alzheimer's disease

Medicine & Health / Research

created Feb 05, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Scientists at UC Santa Barbara have discovered that a protein called BAG2 is important for understanding Alzheimer's disease and may open up new targets for drug discovery. They are ready to move from studying ...


Alzheimer's Molecule is a Smart Speed Bump

Alzheimer's molecule is a smart speed bump on the nerve-cell transport highway

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 17, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine discovered that proteins carrying chemical cargo in nerve cells react differently when exposed to the tau protein, which plays an important ...


Cancer-related protein may play key role in Alzheimer's disease

Medicine & Health / Research

created Feb 28, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0

The cancer-related protein Akt may profoundly influence the fate of the tau protein, which forms bundles of tangled nerve cell fibers in the brain associated with Alzheimer’s disease, reports a new study led by researchers ...


Forgotten and lost - when proteins 'shut down' our brain

Forgotten and lost - when proteins 'shut down' our brain

Biology /

created Feb 17, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Which modules of the tau protein, in neurons of Alzheimer disease patients, may act in a destructive manner were investigated by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry ...


Protein inhibitor helps rid brain of toxic tau protein

Protein inhibitor helps rid brain of toxic tau protein

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Inhibiting the protein Hsp70 rapidly reduces brain levels of tau, a protein associated with Alzheimer's disease when it builds up abnormally inside nerve cells affecting memory, neuroscientists at the University ...


MIT zeroes in on Alzheimer's structures

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Aug 22, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

MIT engineers report a new approach to identifying protein structures key to Alzheimer's disease, an important step toward the development of new drugs that could prevent such structures from forming.


Alzheimer's discovery could bring early diagnosis, treatment closer

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created May 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A discovery made by researchers at McGill University and the affiliated Lady Davis Research Institute for Medical Research at Montreal's Jewish General Hospital offers new hope for the early diagnosis and ...


Pin1 is beneficial in Alzheimer's disease, detrimental to some forms of dementia

Medicine & Health / Research

created Apr 23, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

The most common form of dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, and a relatively rare hereditary form of dementia, frontotemporal dementia with parkinsonism-17, share a common pathology: Both are the result of an overaccumulation ...


Mechanism of Alzheimer's suggests combination therapy needed

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Mar 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine have discovered a mode of action for mysterious but diagnostic protein snarls found in the brains of Alzheimer's patients that suggests a one-two punch ...


Anesthesia or hypothermia: Warning for Alzheimer's patients

Medicine & Health / Other

created Mar 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Everyone knows that its important to keep a cool head, but a new study published online in The FASEB Journal shows that for Alzheimer's patients, a cool head may make the disease worse. In the research report, scientists show t ...



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