"tau Proteins" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Microtubule-associated proteins that are mainly expressed in neurons. Tau proteins constitute several isoforms and play an important role in the assembly of tubulin monomers into microtubules and in maintaining the cytoskeleton and axonal transport. Aggregation of specific sets of tau proteins in filamentous inclusions is the common feature of intraneuronal and glial fibrillar lesions (NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLES; NEUROPIL THREADS) in numerous neurodegenerative disorders (ALZHEIMER DISEASE; TAUOPATHIES).
| Descriptor ID |
D016875
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D12.776.220.600.450.510 D12.776.631.560.510
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| Concept/Terms |
tau Proteins- tau Proteins
- Proteins, tau
- tau Protein
- Protein, tau
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| 2001 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 2002 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2003 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2004 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2005 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2006 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| 2007 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2008 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 2009 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2010 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| 2011 | 5 | 2 | 7 |
| 2012 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2013 | 7 | 1 | 8 |
| 2014 | 8 | 1 | 9 |
| 2015 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2016 | 7 | 2 | 9 |
| 2017 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2018 | 10 | 1 | 11 |
| 2019 | 5 | 3 | 8 |
| 2020 | 4 | 4 | 8 |
| 2021 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| 2022 | 0 | 7 | 7 |
| 2023 | 2 | 5 | 7 |
| 2024 | 7 | 4 | 11 |
| 2025 | 11 | 6 | 17 |
| 2026 | 5 | 4 | 9 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "tau Proteins" by people in Profiles.
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Tubulin transforms Tau and a-synuclein condensates from pathological to physiological. Nat Commun. 2026 Mar 03; 17(1).
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Cerebrospinal fluid markers of alzheimer's pathology relate to aMCI among people with HIV. BMC Neurol. 2026 Jan 17; 26(1):91.
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Plasma lipidome dysregulation in frontotemporal dementia reveals shared, genotype-specific, and severity-linked alterations. Alzheimers Dement. 2025 09; 21(9):e70631.
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Altered patterning of neural activity in a neuropathology. Sci Rep. 2025 Jul 16; 15(1):25881.
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Distinct systemic impacts of A?42 and Tau revealed by whole-organism snRNA-seq. Neuron. 2025 Jul 09; 113(13):2065-2082.e8.
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Glucose uptake in pigment glia suppresses Tau-induced inflammation and photoreceptor degeneration. Dis Model Mech. 2025 04 01; 18(4).
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Protocol for the isolation and proteomic analysis of?pathological tau-seeds. STAR Protoc. 2024 09 20; 5(3):103185.
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Evaluation of N- and O-Linked Indole Triazines for a Dual Effect on a-Synuclein and Tau Aggregation. ACS Chem Neurosci. 2023 11 01; 14(21):3913-3927.
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Association of Plasma and Cerebrospinal Fluid Alzheimer Disease Biomarkers With Race and the Role of Genetic Ancestry, Vascular Comorbidities, and Neighborhood Factors. JAMA Netw Open. 2022 10 03; 5(10):e2235068.
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Platform Trials to Expedite Drug Development in Alzheimer's Disease: A Report from the EU/US CTAD Task Force. J Prev Alzheimers Dis. 2021; 8(3):306-312.