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Will reduction in tau protein protect against Parkinson’s and Lewy body dementias?
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Will reduction in tau protein protect against Parkinson’s and Lewy body dementias?

by Jeff Hansen,  University of Alabama at Birmingham Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new study, published in the journal eNeuro, suggests the answer is no. If this is borne out, that result differs from Alzheimer’s disease, where reducing endogenous tau levels in brain neurons is protective for multiple models of the disease—which further suggests that the role...