New strategy reduces brain damage in Alzheimer’s and related disorders in mice
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18 March 2022New strategy reduces brain damage in Alzheimer’s and related disorders in mice
Alzheimer’s disease is the most common and best known of the tauopathies, a set of neurodegenerative brain diseases caused by toxic tangles of the protein tau. A study by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has shown that targeting astrocytes—an inflammatory cell in the brain—reduces tau-related brain damage and inflammation in mice.
