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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Volume 110, Issue 23, Pages 9535-9540Publisher
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1301175110
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- Swiss National Science Foundation [310030_135214, 32323B_123812]
- VELUX Foundation
- UK Medical Research Council [U105184291]
- US Public Health Service [P30 AG010133]
- Japanese Brain Bank Network for Neuroscience Research
- Medical Research Council [MC_U105184322, MC_U105184291] Funding Source: researchfish
- Parkinson's UK [K-1012] Funding Source: researchfish
- MRC [MC_U105184291, MC_U105184322] Funding Source: UKRI
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) [310030_135214, 32323B_123812] Funding Source: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)
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Filamentous inclusions made of hyperphosphorylated tau are characteristic of numerous human neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease, tangle-only dementia, Pick disease, argyrophilic grain disease (AGD), progressive supranuclear palsy, and corticobasal degeneration. In Alzheimer's disease and AGD, it has been shown that filamentous tau appears to spread in a stereotypic manner as the disease progresses. We previously demonstrated that the injection of brain extracts from human mutant P301S tau-expressing transgenic mice into the brains of mice transgenic for wild-type human tau (line ALZ17) resulted in the assembly of wild-type human tau into filaments and the spreading of tau inclusions from the injection sites to anatomically connected brain regions. Here we injected brain extracts from humans who had died with various tauopathies into the hippocampus and cerebral cortex of ALZ17 mice. Argyrophilic tau inclusions formed in all cases and following the injection of the corresponding brain extracts, we recapitulated the hallmark lesions of AGD, PSP and CBD. Similar inclusions also formed after intracerebral injection of brain homogenates from human tauopathies into nontransgenic mice. Moreover, the induced formation of tau aggregates could be propagated between mouse brains. These findings suggest that once tau aggregates have formed in discrete brain areas, they become self-propagating and spread in a prion-like manner.
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