Cellular mechanisms facilitating the spreading of Tau pathology in Alzheimer's disease: uptake, release and synaptic cell-to-cell transmission of Tau nano-aggregates in neuronal networks

• Applicant: Susanne Wegmann, Ph.D.
• Subject Area: Molecular Biology and Physiology of Neurons and Glial Cells
• Term: from 2012 to 2013
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 223752619

• Final Report Year: 2016

Final Report Abstract

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Publications

• Split-Luciferase assay for tau oligomerization. Tau Symposium at University of Madrid 2014
  Susanne Wegmann
  
• Tau propagation in microfluidic devices. Annual Meeting of Society for Neuroscience 2014
  Shuko Takeda
  
• Neuronal uptake and propagation of a rare phosphorylated high-molecularweight tau derived from Alzheimer’s disease brain. Nature Communications, 6: 8490 (2015)
  Takeda S, Wegmann S, et al.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms9490)
• Formation, release and internalization of stable tau oligomers in cells. Journal of Neurochemistry Vol 139 Issue 6, December 2016, Pages 1163-1174
  Wegmann S, Nicholls S, et al.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1111/jnc.13866)