NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLE


Meaning of NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ noun ]

Date: 1973

: a pathological accumulation of paired helical filaments composed of abnormally formed tau protein that is found chiefly in the cytoplasm of neurons of the brain and especially the cerebral cortex and hippocampus and that occurs typically in Alzheimer's disease

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