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On the origin of tau seeding activity in Alzheimer’s disease

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  1. LIM-44, University of Sao Paulo Medical School, Sao Paulo, Brazil

    Helmut Heinsen

  2. Clinic of Psychiatry, University of Würzburg, Wurzburg, Germany

    Helmut Heinsen

  3. Memory and Aging Center, Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, USA

    Lea T. Grinberg

  4. Brazilian Aging Brain Study Group, LIM-22, Department of Pathology, University of Sao Paulo Medical School, Sao Paulo, Brazil

    Lea T. Grinberg

  5. Department of Pathology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Lea T. Grinberg

  6. Global Brain Health Institute, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, USA

    Lea T. Grinberg

  7. Residence Memory and Aging Center, Department of Neurology and Pathology, Sandler Neurosciences Center, 675 Nelson Rising Lane, Room 211B, Box 1207, San Francisco, CA, 94158, USA

    Lea T. Grinberg

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Heinsen, H., Grinberg, L.T. On the origin of tau seeding activity in Alzheimer’s disease. Acta Neuropathol 136, 815–817 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00401-018-1890-3

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