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American Journal of Pathology, Vol 143, 565-578, Copyright © 1993 by American Society for Investigative Pathology

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Biochemical and anatomical redistribution of tau protein in Alzheimer's disease

EB Mukaetova-Ladinska, CR Harrington, M Roth and CM Wischik
Cambridge Brain Bank Laboratory, University of Cambridge Department of Psychiatry, England.

We have developed assays that distinguish tau protein incorporated into the core structure of the paired helical filament (PHF) from non-PHF tau protein in brain tissue, whether soluble or insoluble. The PHF content was 19-fold greater in Alzheimer's disease cases compared with cognitively intact controls, and in temporal cortex the difference was 40-fold. There was a threefold decrease in soluble tau protein in Alzheimer's disease cases compared with normal age-matched controls, the decrease being greatest in frontal cortex. The PHF content was closely correlated with the number of tau-immunoreactive dystrophic neurites in plaques and throughout the neuropil, whereas counts of neurofibrillary tangles were poorer predictors of PHF content. beta- Amyloid deposits correlated neither with PHF content nor with neurofibrillary pathology. These findings suggest that Alzheimer's disease is characterized by a substantial redistribution of available tau protein from free to PHF-incorporated fractions and that PHF accumulation may be important in neurites as well as tangles in predicting the extent of cognitive impairment in Alzheimer's disease.


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