Protein Tangles (IMAGE)

University of California - San Diego

Protein Tangles

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Exposing mice to 14 days of repeated stress resulted in an accumulation of insoluble phosphorylated tau protein aggregates in brain cells, visualized in this electron micrograph.

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Image courtesy of Robert Rissman, UC San Diego

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