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Feb. 03, 2012
Study Tracks Alzheimer's Progression In Mice
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| Amyloid plaques and tangles of protein in the brain are two of the key signs of the form of dementia known as Alzheimer’s disease. In new work reported in the journal PLOS One, researchers tracked the spread of tangles of tau protein from neuron to neuron in the brains of mice. Study co-author Karen Duff of the Columbia University Medical Center discusses the findings. |
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Karen Duff
Professor in the Department of Pathology & Cell Biology
Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer’s Disease and the Aging Brain
Columbia University Medical Center
New York, New York
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