Nature Communications (Sep 2017)

Tau exacerbates excitotoxic brain damage in an animal model of stroke

  • Mian Bi,
  • Amadeus Gladbach,
  • Janet van Eersel,
  • Arne Ittner,
  • Magdalena Przybyla,
  • Annika van Hummel,
  • Sook Wern Chua,
  • Julia van der Hoven,
  • Wei S. Lee,
  • Julius Müller,
  • Jasneet Parmar,
  • Georg von Jonquieres,
  • Holly Stefen,
  • Ernesto Guccione,
  • Thomas Fath,
  • Gary D. Housley,
  • Matthias Klugmann,
  • Yazi D. Ke,
  • Lars M. Ittner

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00618-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Excitotoxicity contributes to neuronal injury following stroke. Here the authors show that tau promotes excitotoxicity by a post-synaptic mechanism, involving site-specific control of ERK activation, in a mouse model of stroke.