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  1. Genetic Architecture of Plasma Amyloid and Tau Biomarkers in the Amish 2026-10-19
  2. Elevation in Plasma p-tau217 Concentrations Among Blood Donors: An Exploratory Cross-Sectional Study 2026-09-24
  3. A Harmonized Visual Reading Framework for Tau PET Staging in Alzheimer Disease 2026-09-21

Studies

738 studies carry this tag.

Date range

1986 to 2026

Top journals

  • Neurology 52
  • Alzheimer s & Dementia 50
  • JAMA neurology 42
  • Brain : a journal of neurology 24
  • The Journal of biological chemistry 22

231 journals in all.

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  1. Mutations in progranulin cause tau-negative frontotemporal dementia linked to chromosome 17

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Nature 2006-07-16 Lewy body dementia

    Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is the second most common cause of dementia in people under the age of 65 years.

  2. Region-specific dissociation of neuronal loss and neurofibrillary pathology in a mouse model of tauopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The American journal of pathology 2006-05-01 Disease mechanisms

    Neurofibrillary tangles form in a specific spatial and temporal pattern in Alzheimer's disease.

  3. Improved long-term potentiation and memory in young tau-P301L transgenic mice before onset of hyperphosphorylation and tauopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2006-03-01 Disease mechanisms

    The microtubule binding protein tau is implicated in neurodegenerative tauopathies, including frontotemporal dementia (FTD) with Parkinsonism caused by diverse mutations in the tau gene.

  4. Interface between tauopathies and synucleinopathies: a tale of two proteins

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2006-03-01 Disease mechanisms

    Neurodegenerative diseases are often classified based on the abnormal accumulation of synuclein or tau.

  5. Impaired glutamate transport in a mouse model of tau pathology in astrocytes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2006-01-01 Disease mechanisms

    Filamentous tau inclusions in neurons and glia are neuropathological hallmarks of tauopathies.

  6. Age-dependent neurofibrillary tangle formation, neuron loss, and memory impairment in a mouse model of human tauopathy (P301L)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2005-11-01 Lewy body dementia

    Here, we describe the generation of a novel transgenic mouse model of human tauopathy.

  7. Progressive neurodegeneration in C. elegans model of tauopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neurobiology of disease 2005-11-01 Disease mechanisms

    Discovery of various mutations in the tau gene among frontotemporal dementia and parkinsonism linked to chromosome 17 (FTDP-17) families suggests gain-of-toxic function of wild-type or mutant tau as the mechanism for extensive neuronal loss.

  8. Inducible expression of Tau repeat domain in cell models of tauopathy: aggregation is toxic to cells but can be reversed by inhibitor drugs

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2005-10-24 Disease mechanisms

    We generated several cell models of tauopathy in order to study the mechanisms of neurodegeneration in diseases involving abnormal changes of tau protein.

  9. Disease-related modifications in tau affect the interaction between Fyn and Tau

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2005-08-22 Disease mechanisms

    Microtubule-associated protein tau is the major component of the neurofibrillary tangles of Alzheimer disease (AD) and is genetically linked to frontotemporal dementias (FTDP-17).

  10. Tau Suppression in a Neurodegenerative Mouse Model Improves Memory Function

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Science 2005-07-14 Disease mechanisms

    Neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs) are the most common intraneuronal inclusion in the brains of patients with neurodegenerative diseases and have been implicated in mediating neuronal death and cognitive deficits.

  11. Genomic architecture of human 17q21 linked to frontotemporal dementia uncovers a highly homologous family of low-copy repeats in the tau region

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Human molecular genetics 2005-05-11 Disease mechanisms

    Familial frontotemporal dementia (FTD), characterized by tau-negative, ubiquitin-positive inclusions at autopsy, is linked to a chromosomal region at 17q21 (FTDU-17), encompassing the gene encoding the microtubule associated protein tau, MAPT.

  12. Correlation of cerebrospinal fluid levels of tau protein phosphorylated at threonine 231 with rates of hippocampal atrophy in Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2005-05-01 Tau biomarkers

    The microtubule-associated tau protein abnormally phosphorylated at threonine 231 (p-tau231) has been investigated as a potential marker of Alzheimer disease.

  13. Proteomic and functional analyses reveal a mitochondrial dysfunction in P301L tau transgenic mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2005-04-14 Lewy body dementia

    Transgenic mice overexpressing the P301L mutant human tau protein exhibit an accumulation of hyperphosphorylated tau and develop neurofibrillary tangles.

  14. Transgenic mouse model of tau pathology in astrocytes leading to nervous system degeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2005-04-01 Disease mechanisms

    Filamentous tau inclusions in neurons and glia are neuropathological hallmarks of sporadic and familial tauopathies.

  15. Tau and alpha-synuclein inclusions in a case of familial frontotemporal dementia and progressive aphasia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology 2005-03-01 Down syndrome and Alzheimer's

    Recent studies have shown that neurofibrillary tangles are frequently accompanied by alpha-synuclein inclusions in sporadic and familial Alzheimer disease, in Down syndrome, in progressive supranuclear palsy, and Parkinsonism dementia complex of Guam.

  16. Prevention of isoproterenol-induced tau hyperphosphorylation by melatonin in the rat

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 34 out of 100. Sheng li xue bao : [Acta physiologica Sinica] 2005-02-01 Tau biomarkers

    Hyperphosphorylated microtubule-associated protein tau is the major protein component of neurofibrillary tangles in the brain of patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  17. Mutations causing neurodegenerative tauopathies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Biochimica et biophysica acta 2005-01-01 Risk factors

    Tau is the major component of the intracellular filamentous deposits that define a number of neurodegenerative diseases.

  18. Tau pathology in Alzheimer disease and other tauopathies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Biochimica et biophysica acta 2005-01-01 Lewy body dementia

    Just as neuronal activity is essential to normal brain function, microtubule-associated protein tau appears to be critical to normal neuronal activity in the mammalian brain, especially in the evolutionary most advanced species, the homo sapiens.

  19. Inhibition of heparin-induced tau filament formation by phenothiazines, polyphenols, and porphyrins

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2004-12-17 Lewy body dementia

    Tau protein is the major component of the intraneuronal filamentous inclusions that constitute defining neuropathological characteristics of Alzheimer's disease and other tauopathies.

  20. Argyrophilic grain disease: a late-onset dementia with distinctive features among tauopathies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neuropathology : official journal of the Japanese Society of Neuropathology 2004-12-01 Disease mechanisms

    Argyrophilic grain disease (AgD) is a late-onset dementia morphologically characterized by the presence of abundant spindle-shaped argyrophilic grains (ArG) in neuronal processes and coiled bodies in oligodendrocytes.

  21. Simultaneous measurement of beta-amyloid(1-42), total tau, and phosphorylated tau (Thr181) in cerebrospinal fluid by the xMAP technology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Clinical chemistry 2004-11-24 Mild cognitive impairment

    The INNO-BIA AlzBio3 selectively and specifically measured Abeta((1-42)), T-TAU, and P-TAU((181P)) in the CSF.

  22. Transient cerebral ischemia induces site-specific hyperphosphorylation of tau protein

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Brain research 2004-10-01 Disease mechanisms

    Neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs) are a pathological hallmark of many neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer's disease (AD), Parkinson's disease (PD), and frontotemporal dementia with parkinsonism linked to chromosome 17 (FTDP17).

  23. Staging of argyrophilic grains: an age-associated tauopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology 2004-09-01 Disease mechanisms

    We have reported that the ambient gyrus is the site with the greatest accumulation of argyrophilic grains (AGs) and that the degeneration of the ambient gyrus is responsible for dementia with grains.

  24. Mild cognitive impairment is considered to be a transitional stage between normal aging and dementia.

  25. Inhibition of neurofibrillary degeneration: a promising approach to Alzheimer's disease and other tauopathies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 35 out of 100. Current drug targets 2004-08-01 Tau biomarkers

    Neurofibrillary degeneration (ND) is both a pivotal and a primary lesion of Alzheimer disease (AD) and related tauopathies.

  26. Posttranslational modifications of tau--role in human tauopathies and modeling in transgenic animals

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Current drug targets 2004-08-01 Disease mechanisms

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized histopathologically by beta-amyloid-containing plaques, neurofibrillary tangles (NFT), reduced synaptic density, and neuronal loss in selected brain areas.

  27. Caspase-cleavage of tau is an early event in Alzheimer disease tangle pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. The Journal of clinical investigation 2004-07-01 Brain tissue and pathology

    Neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs) are composed of abnormal aggregates of the cytoskeletal protein tau.

  28. Retarded axonal transport of R406W mutant tau in transgenic mice with a neurodegenerative tauopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2004-05-01 Disease mechanisms

    Intracellular accumulations of filamentous tau inclusions are neuropathological hallmarks of neurodegenerative diseases known as tauopathies.

  29. Interleukin-6 induces Alzheimer-type phosphorylation of tau protein by deregulating the cdk5/p35 pathway

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Experimental cell research 2004-04-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    Inflammation is a process that has been actively related with the onset of several neurodegenerative disorders including Alzheimer disease (AD).

  30. Measurement of phosphorylated tau epitopes in the differential diagnosis of Alzheimer disease: a comparative cerebrospinal fluid study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Archives of general psychiatry 2004-01-01 Getting a diagnosis

    The p-tau proteins in CSF come closest to fulfilling the criteria of a biological marker of AD.

  31. Clogging of axons by tau, inhibition of axonal traffic and starvation of synapses

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2003-12-01 Risk genes beyond APOE

    Loss of synapses and dying back of axons are considered early events in brain degeneration during Alzheimer's disease.

  32. Genetic modifiers of tauopathy in Drosophila

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Genetics 2003-11-01 Disease mechanisms

    In Alzheimer's disease and related disorders, the microtubule-associated protein Tau is abnormally hyperphosphorylated and aggregated into neurofibrillary tangles.

  33. Total tau in cerebrospinal fluid differentiates Alzheimer's disease from vascular dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 35 out of 100. Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research 2003-11-01 Tau biomarkers

    Tau protein is a microtubule-associated protein located in neuronal axons, which has been used in various configurations as a diagnostic marker of degenerative changes in the CNS.

  34. Total tau and phosphorylated tau 181 levels in the cerebrospinal fluid of patients with frontotemporal dementia due to P301L and G272V tau mutations

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2003-09-01 Tau biomarkers

    Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is a pathologically heterogeneous group of presenile neurodegenerative disorders, with or without the deposition of hyperphosphorylated tau protein in affected brain regions.

  35. The L266V tau mutation is associated with frontotemporal dementia and Pick-like 3R and 4R tauopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2003-07-19 Disease mechanisms

    We report a case of rapidly progressive frontotemporal dementia presenting at age 33 years.

  36. Neurodegeneration and defective neurotransmission in a Caenorhabditis elegans model of tauopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2003-07-18 Disease mechanisms

    Frontotemporal dementia with parkinsonism chromosome 17 type (FTDP-17) is caused by mutations in MAPT, the gene encoding tau.

  37. Colocalization of tau and alpha-synuclein epitopes in Lewy bodies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology 2003-04-01 Lewy body dementia

    The major protein constituent of Lewy bodies (LBs), the pathological hallmark of Parkinson disease and dementia with Lewy bodies, is considered to be alpha-synuclein, but other proteins, in particular the microtubule-associated protein tau, have been implicated in the pathogenesis of LBs.

  38. Abundant tau filaments and nonapoptotic neurodegeneration in transgenic mice expressing human P301S tau protein

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2002-11-01 Disparities

    The identification of mutations in the Tau gene in frontotemporal dementia and parkinsonism linked to chromosome 17 (FTDP-17) has made it possible to express human tau protein with pathogenic mutations in transgenic animals.

  39. Tau filament formation and associative memory deficit in aged mice expressing mutant (R406W) human tau

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2002-10-04 Disease mechanisms

    The R406W tau mutation found in frontotemporal dementia and parkinsonism linked to chromosome 17 (FTDP-17) causes a hereditary tauopathy clinically resembling Alzheimer's disease.

  40. Tau conformational changes correspond to impairments of episodic memory in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Experimental neurology 2002-10-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    A multitiered strategy was adopted to assess tau conformational changes within fibrillar lesions during the progression of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  41. CSF tau protein phosphorylated at threonine 231 correlates with cognitive decline in MCI subjects

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Neurology 2002-08-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    In this longitudinal study of 77 patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), the authors analyzed whether levels of tau protein phosphorylated at threonine 231 (p-tau(231)) in CSF correlate with progression of cognitive decline.

  42. Differential diagnosis of Alzheimer disease with cerebrospinal fluid levels of tau protein phosphorylated at threonine 231

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2002-08-01 Tau biomarkers

    Phosphorylation of tau protein at threonine 231 (using full-length tau, 441 amino acids, for the numbering scheme) (p-tau(231)) occurs specifically in postmortem brain tissue of patients with Alzheimer disease (AD) and can be sensitively detected in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF).

  43. Argyrophilic grain disease is a sporadic 4-repeat tauopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology 2002-06-01 Disease mechanisms

    Argyrophilic grain disease (AGD) was first reported as an adult-onset dementia, but recent studies have emphasized personality change, emotional imbalance, and memory problems as clinical features of AGD.

  44. Signature tau neuropathology in gray and white matter of corticobasal degeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. The American journal of pathology 2002-06-01 Disease mechanisms

    Corticobasal degeneration (CBD) is an adult-onset progressive neurodegenerative disorder characterized by L-dopa-resistant rigidity, focal cortical deficits, and variable dementia.

  45. Human wild-type tau interacts with wingless pathway components and produces neurofibrillary pathology in Drosophila

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Neuron 2002-05-01 Lewy body dementia

    Pathologic alterations in the microtubule-associated protein tau have been implicated in a number of neurodegenerative disorders, including Alzheimer's disease (AD), progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), and frontotemporal dementia (FTD).

  46. [Diagnostic value of tau in cerebrospinal fluid in alzheimer disease]

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 33 out of 100. Zhonghua yi xue za zhi 2001-11-01 Tau biomarkers

    The measurement of CSF specimens from Netherlands Brain Bank showed that the levels of total tau and p-tau in CSF specimens of AD patients were significantly higher than those in CSF of patients with VD and non-dementia neurological disorders, and of age-matched non-

  47. Interleukin-1 promotion of MAPK-p38 overexpression in experimental animals and in Alzheimer's disease: potential significance for tau protein phosphorylation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neurochemistry international 2001-11-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    Activated (phosphorylated) mitogen-activated protein kinase p38 (MAPK-p38) and interleukin-1 (IL-1) have both been implicated in the hyperphosphorylation of tau, a major component of the neurofibrillary tangles in Alzheimer's disease.

  48. Mutations of tau protein in frontotemporal dementia promote aggregation of paired helical filaments by enhancing local beta-structure

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. The Journal of biological chemistry 2001-10-17 Lewy body dementia

    The microtubule-associated protein tau is a natively unfolded protein in solution, yet it is able to polymerize into the ordered paired helical filaments (PHF) of Alzheimer's disease.

  49. Enhanced Neurofibrillary Degeneration in Transgenic Mice Expressing Mutant Tau and APP

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Science 2001-08-24 Disease mechanisms

    JNPL3 transgenic mice expressing a mutant tau protein, which develop neurofibrillary tangles and progressive motor disturbance, were crossed with Tg2576 transgenic mice expressing mutant beta-amyloid precursor protein (APP), thus modulating the APP-Abeta (beta-amyloid peptide) environment.

  50. Both total and phosphorylated tau are increased in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 2001-05-01 Vascular contributions

    Both CSF tau and CSF phosphotau were increased in probable AD compared with FTD (p<0.001), SAE (p<0.001), PD (p<0.001), and controls (p<0.001).

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