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Caption: Tissue from the hippocampal region of the brain is stained brown to display the tau protein. The triangular shapes are neurofibrillary tangles. Amyloid plaques are the round, less dense structures, which contain amyloid-beta, but are stained only for tau in this image.
Credit: Washington University School of Medicine
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