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NEUROBIOLOGY OF DISEASE
Volume 8, Issue 6, Pages 1036-1045Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1006/nbdi.2001.0439
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Formation of neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs) is the most common feature in several neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease (AD). Here we report the formation of filamentous tau aggregations having a beta -sheet structure in transgenic mice expressing mutant human tau. These mice contain a tau gene with a mutation of the frontotemporal dementia parkinsonism (FTDP-17) type, in which valine is substituted with methionine residue 337. The aggregation of tau in these transgenic mice satisfies all histological criteria used to identify NFTs common to human neurodegenerative diseases. These mice, therefore, provide a preclinical model for the testing of therapeutic drugs for the treatment of neurodegenerative disorders that exhibit NFTs. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science.
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