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When Brain Beavers Build Too Big: Breaking the Glycogen Dam in Tauopathy
In the complex landscape of neurodegenerative disorders like Alzheimer’s disease and frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD), an interesting case of metabolic misbehavior has been identified by a research team at the Buck Institute of Research on Aging (1). Think of glycogen, the brain’s emergency energy reserve, as the building material. In affected neurons, the tau protein […]
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