Alzheimers disease brain cell, TEM

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Alzheimers disease brain cell, TEM

Alzheimers disease brain cell. Coloured transmission electron micrograph (TEM) of a neurofibrillary tangle in a nerve cell from the brain of a patient with Alzheimers disease. The tangle (red) lies in the cytoplasm (yellow) of the cell body, adjacent to the nucleus (green). It consists of abnormal aggregates of the protein tau, which in the healthy cell stabilises microtubules in the cytoplasm. It is not known precisely how the tangles are formed, nor their impact on the neurons function, but they are seen in a range of neural disorders including Alzheimers disease, Creutzfeld-Jakob disease (CJD), some forms of Parkinsons disease, and Supranuclear Palsy

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