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Rapid butterfly declines across the United States during the 21st century

3 months ago
Science, Volume 387, Issue 6738, Page 1090-1094, March 2025.
Collin B. Edwards, Elise F. Zipkin, Erica H. Henry, Nick M. Haddad, Matthew L. Forister, Kevin J. Burls, Steven P. Campbell, Elizabeth E. Crone, Jay Diffendorfer, Margaret R. Douglas, Ryan G. Drum, Candace E. Fallon, Jeffrey Glassberg, Eliza M. Grames,…

Phosphorylated tau 181 and 217 are elevated in serum and muscle of patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

3 months ago
Blood phosphorylated (p)-tau 181 and p-tau 217 have been proposed as accurate biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology. However, blood p-tau 181 is also elevated in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) without a clearly identified source. We measured serum p-tau 181 and p-tau 217 in a multicentre cohort of ALS (n = 152), AD (n = 111) cases and disease controls (n = 99) recruited from four different centres. Further, we investigated the existence of both p-tau species using...
Samir Abu-Rumeileh

Tau filaments with the Alzheimer fold in human MAPT mutants V337M and R406W

3 months ago
Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and Alzheimer's disease (AD) are the most common forms of early-onset dementia. Unlike AD, FTD begins with behavioral changes before the development of cognitive impairment. Dominantly inherited mutations in MAPT, the microtubule-associated protein tau gene, give rise to cases of FTD and parkinsonism linked to chromosome 17. These individuals develop abundant filamentous tau inclusions in brain cells in the absence of β-amyloid deposits. Here, we used cryo-electron...
Chao Qi

Age-related differences in long-term memory performance and astrocyte morphology in rat hippocampus

3 months ago
Astrocytes are neuromodulator cells. Their complex and dynamic morphology regulates neuronal signaling, synaptic plasticity, and neurogenesis. The impact of aging on astrocyte morphology is still under ongoing debate. Therefore, this study aimed to characterize astrocyte morphology in the hippocampus of older rats. 2-, 18-, and 20-month-old male Wistar rats were submitted to the object recognition test to assess their short- and long-term memories. CA1, CA2, CA3, and the dentate gyrus were...
Yandara A Martins