"tau Proteins" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Microtubule-associated proteins that are mainly expressed in neurons. Tau proteins constitute several isoforms and play an important role in the assembly of tubulin monomers into microtubules and in maintaining the cytoskeleton and axonal transport. Aggregation of specific sets of tau proteins in filamentous inclusions is the common feature of intraneuronal and glial fibrillar lesions (NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLES; NEUROPIL THREADS) in numerous neurodegenerative disorders (ALZHEIMER DISEASE; TAUOPATHIES).
| Descriptor ID |
D016875
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D12.776.220.600.450.510 D12.776.631.560.510
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| Concept/Terms |
tau Proteins- tau Proteins
- Proteins, tau
- tau Protein
- Protein, tau
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| 1997 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1999 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2003 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2004 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2005 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2006 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 2007 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2008 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| 2009 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2010 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2011 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2013 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2014 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2015 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2016 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2017 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 2018 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| 2019 | 3 | 4 | 7 |
| 2020 | 2 | 5 | 7 |
| 2021 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 2022 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| 2023 | 0 | 9 | 9 |
| 2024 | 7 | 0 | 7 |
| 2025 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "tau Proteins" by people in Profiles.
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Hyperphosphorylated Tau Induces Cortical Hypoexcitability in Transgenic Mouse Models: A Meta-Analysis. J Integr Neurosci. 2025 Aug 28; 24(8):39192.
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Locus coeruleus tau validates and informs high-resolution MRI in aging and at earliest Alzheimer's pathology stages. Acta Neuropathol Commun. 2025 02 28; 13(1):44.
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Conventional and Emerging Drug Targeting Sites in Alzheimer's Disease and the Role of Translational Informatics in its Diagnosis and Management. Curr Neuropharmacol. 2025; 23(14):1894-1917.
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Clinical Manifestations. Alzheimers Dement. 2024 Dec; 20 Suppl 3:e091387.
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Exacerbated mitochondrial dynamic abnormalities without evident tau pathology in rapidly progressive Alzheimer's disease. J Alzheimers Dis. 2024 Dec; 102(4):1074-1083.
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Exploring the rhodanine universe: Design and synthesis of fluorescent rhodanine-based derivatives as anti-fibrillar and anti-oligomer agents against a-synuclein and 2N4R tau. Bioorg Med Chem. 2024 Dec 15; 116:117990.
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Evaluation of Alpha-Synuclein and Tau Antiaggregation Activity of Urea and Thiourea-Based Small Molecules for Neurodegenerative Disease Therapeutics. ACS Chem Neurosci. 2024 11 06; 15(21):3915-3931.
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Regulation of proteostasis by sleep through autophagy in Drosophila models of Alzheimer's disease. Life Sci Alliance. 2024 Nov; 7(11).
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Reduction of spermine synthase enhances autophagy to suppress Tau accumulation. Cell Death Dis. 2024 05 13; 15(5):333.
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Meta-Analysis in Transgenic Alzheimer's Disease Mouse Models Reveals Opposite Brain Network Effects of Amyloid-ß and Phosphorylated Tau Proteins. J Alzheimers Dis. 2024; 99(2):595-607.