Tuesday, June 10, 2014

Study of normal function of Tau in flies includes report of partial rescue of Tau mutant with human Tau

Bolkan BJ, Kretzschmar D. Loss of Tau results in defects in photoreceptor development and progressive neuronal degeneration in Drosophila. Dev Neurobiol. 2014 Jun 7. PMID: 24909306.

From the abstract: "... Expression of wild type human Tau partially rescued the neurodegenerative phenotype caused by the loss of endogenous dTau, suggesting that the functions of Tau proteins are functionally conserved from flies to humans."

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