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TAU
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The 19th letter of the Greek alphabet
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("tau" is a kind of...):
alphabetic character; letter; letter of the alphabet (the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech)
Holonyms ("tau" is a member of...):
Greek alphabet (the alphabet used by ancient Greeks)
Context examples:
These proteins include specialized motor proteins (dynein and kinesin) and smaller tubulin-crosslinking proteins (tau proteins).
(Microtubule Associated Protein, NCI Thesaurus)
Deregulated cdk5 hyperphosphorylates tau promoting cell death in neurons.
(Calpain-2 Cell Motility Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
These proteins, such as huntingtin in Huntington’s disease and tau in some dementias, form ‘aggregates’ that can cause irreversible damage to nerve cells in the brain.
(Blood pressure drug shows promise for treating Parkinson’s and dementia in animal studies, University of Cambridge)
It is characterized by frontotemporal lobar degeneration with accumulation of tau proteins which form Pick bodies.
(Pick's Disease, NCI Thesaurus)
Tau Ceti, a favorite destination of science fiction writers, is very similar to the sun both in size and brightness.
(Potentially Habitable 'Super-Earths' Found Orbiting around Sun's near Neighbor, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
More evidence is accumulating to indicate that this loss of cognitive functioning is a mix of many different disease processes in the brain, rather than just one, such as buildup of amyloid or tau proteins.
(Viruses may play a role in Alzheimer’s disease, National Institutes of Health)
In the patients with elevated levels of amyloid or tau, we detected significant thinning in the center of the retina, said co-principal investigator Rajendra S. Apte, MD, PhD, the Paul A. Cibis Distinguished Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences.
(Predicting Alzheimer's Disease May Be Possible Using Eye Exam, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
When mice consumed the high-salt diet in this study, their brains also showed evidence of tau aggregates that coincided with reduced cognitive abilities.
(Pathogenic tau and cognitive impairment are precipitated by a high-salt diet, National Institutes of Health)
But the amount of tau tangles, another hallmark of the disease, and the one more correlated with how thinking and memory are affected, was relatively low.
(Unique case of disease resistance reveals possible Alzheimer’s treatment, National Institutes of Health)
"These antibodies seem to have cleared (out) pathological tau. Pathological tau is one of the components of these tangles that we find in the brains of patients with Alzheimers Disease," she explains.
(Researchers May Have Found Way to Prevent Alzheimer's Disease, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
