Toxic Tau in Parkinson's (IMAGE)

Scripps Research Institute

Toxic Tau in Parkinson's

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Scripps Research scientist Corinne Lasmézas, PhD, and team find that enzyme-modified tau clumps with pα-syn* on the mitochondrial membrane. The two protein aggregates eventually destroy the mitochondria.

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