neurofibrillary tangle
noun
: a pathological accumulation of paired helical filaments composed of abnormally formed tau protein that is found chiefly in the cytoplasm of neurons of the brain and especially the cerebral cortex and hippocampus and that occurs typically in Alzheimer's disease
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The three main focuses are on neurofibrillary tangles, amyloid-beta and cerebral atrophy.
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Lori Youmshajekian, Scientific American, 4 Dec. 2023
Eventually, the pileup overwhelms and kills the cell, leaving neurofibrillary tangles, which appear as ominous dark smears under a microscope.
—Celia Ford, WIRED, 12 Sep. 2023
Those two lesions are beta-amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles.
—Scientific American, 13 Aug. 2019
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Lori Youmshajekian, Scientific American, 4 Dec. 2023
Eventually, the pileup overwhelms and kills the cell, leaving neurofibrillary tangles, which appear as ominous dark smears under a microscope.
—Celia Ford, WIRED, 12 Sep. 2023
Those two lesions are beta-amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles.
—Scientific American, 13 Aug. 2019
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