New strategy reduces brain damage in Alzheimer's and related disorders, in mice: Targeting inflammatory brain cell may be effective for brain diseases linked to tau protein - Science Daily

Alzheimer's disease is the most common and best known of the tauopathies, a set of neurodegenerative brain diseases caused by toxic tangles of the protein tau. A study has now shown that targeting astrocytes -- an inflammatory cell in the brain -- reduces tau…

Alzheimer's disease is the most common and best known of the tauopathies, a set of neurodegenerative brain diseases caused by toxic tangles of the protein tau. A study by researchers at Washington Un… [+4620 chars]

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