News tagged with tau expression

Study of cerebrospinal fluid reveals potential new Alzheimer's gene

A genomic study of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) has added a new gene to the list of potential genetic contributors to Alzheimer's disease, a national research team led by Indiana University School of Medicine ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

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Study dusts sugar coating off little-known regulation in cells

In Alzheimer's disease, brain neurons become clogged with tangled proteins. Scientists suspect these tangles arise partly due to malfunctions in a little-known regulatory system within cells. Now, researchers have dramatically ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Apr 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

First results from Daya Bay find new kind of neutrino transformation

The Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment, a multinational collaboration operating in the south of China, today reported the first results of its search for the last, most elusive piece of a long-standing puzzle: ...

Physics / General Physics

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Physicists propose search for fourth neutrino

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists know that neutrinos (and antineutrinos) come in three flavors: electron, muon, and tau. In several experiments, researchers have detected each of the neutrino flavors and even watched ...

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 29, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (31) | comments 41 | with audio podcast feature

Repairing our inner clock with a two-inch fish

Circadian rhythms — the natural cycle that dictates our biological processes over a 24-hour day — does more than tell us when to sleep or wake. Disruptions in the cycle are also associated with depression, problems ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jul 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Insulin could be Alzheimer's therapy

A low dose of insulin has been found to suppress the expression in the blood of four precursor proteins involved in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease, according to new clinical research by University ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Apr 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Study suggests another avenue for detecting Alzheimer's disease

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have determined that a well-known chemical process called acetylation has a previously unrecognized association with one of the biological processes ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

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Molecule that spurs cell's recycling center may help Alzheimer's patients

Cells, which employ a process called autophagy to clean up and reuse protein debris leftover from biological processes, were the original recyclers. A team of scientists from Paul Greengard's Rockefeller University laboratory ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

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Boosting protein garbage disposal in brain cells protects mice from Alzheimer's disease

Gene therapy that boosts the ability of brain cells to gobble up toxic proteins prevents development of Alzheimer's disease in mice that are predestined to develop it, report researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center. ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Mar 04, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Tau-induced memory loss in Alzheimer's mice is reversible

Amyloid-beta and tau protein deposits in the brain are characteristic features of Alzheimer disease. The effect on the hippocampus, the area of the brain that plays a central role in learning and memory, is ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Feb 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Dynamics of chaperone protein critical in rescuing brains of Alzheimer's mice from neuron damage

Dynamic regulation of the chaperone protein Hsp27 was required to get rid of abnormally accumulating tau in the brains of mice genetically modified to develop the memory-choking tau tangles associated with ...

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