Invited review: Prion-like transmission and spreading of tau pathology

Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 47-58

  Clavaguera, Florence ^a   Hench, Jürgen ^a   Goedert, Michel ^b   Tolnay, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Propagation; Tauopathy; Transmission

Indexed keywords

TAU PROTEIN; PRION;

DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; FUSIFORM GYRUS; GLIA CELL; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; LOCUS CERULEUS; NEOCORTEX; NERVE CELL; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TAUOPATHY; TEMPORAL CORTEX; ANIMAL; BRAIN; CELL INCLUSION; DISEASE MODEL; METABOLISM; MOUSE; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLE; PATHOLOGY; PHOSPHORYLATION; PRION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; HUMANS; INCLUSION BODIES; MICE; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLES; PHOSPHORYLATION; PRIONS; TAU PROTEINS; TAUOPATHIES;

EID: 84923043770     PISSN: 03051846     EISSN: 13652990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nan.12197     Document Type: Review

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