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Those are amyloid-only mice. It's an amyloid+tau disease, with tau the proximate cause of neurodegeneration. Normal mice don't get tau pathology, whereas even healthy human beings do, however it stays localized until the presence of widespread amyloid pathology.

Causal intervention on amyloid+tau mice is consistent with causal mediation from longitudinal human neuroimaging data: the amyloid pathology greatly accelerates tau pathology, and then this causes neurodegeneration.

parent DavidSJ 4 months ago

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