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Target tau, not amyloid, to prevent and treat Alzheimer’s disease

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In this article I wish to put the case for a change of emphasis in the approach to finding a prevention/treatment for Alzheimer’s disease from a focus on beta amyloid to one on tau. In particular, I make the case for aiming to prevent the spread of abnormal tau from the medial temporal lobe to widespread areas of association cortex that are anatomically linked to this critical region. I pose an analogy with cardiovascular disease in which the initiating pathology, lipid streaks, are left untr...

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Published
Peer review status:
Peer reviewed

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10.21926/obm.geriatr.2001103

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Division:
MSD
Department:
Clinical Neurosciences
Role:
Author
Publisher:
LIDSEN Publishing Inc Publisher's website
Journal:
OBM Geriatrics Journal website
Volume:
4
Issue:
1
Publication date:
2020-02-04
Acceptance date:
2020-01-22
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ISSN:
2638-1311
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Pubs id:
1095832
Local pid:
pubs:1095832
Deposit date:
2020-03-23

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