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tau

Type: protein
Aliases: tau protein tau phosphorylation
Systems Analogy

The hardware brackets that hold structural framing beams together; if they collapse, they tangle and block the tracks.

A microtubule-associated protein synthesized in neurons that stabilizes axonal structures, whose hyperphosphorylation drives neurofibrillary tangles.

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