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Increased CSF tau protein in corticobasal degeneration

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Using a sensitive sandwich enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) method, we measured the concentration of total tau protein in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) from nine patients with corticobasal degeneration (CBD) in comparison with 12 normal control subjects in order to assess its diagnostic value. The CSF concentration of tau in patients with CBD (0.69, 0.20 ng/ml: mean, SD) was higher than that in the normal controls (0.48, 0.14 ng/ml, P = 0.0076 unpaired t test). This increase in CBD patients may reflect widespread tau pathology in CBD, but should be interpreted with reserve as an aid to diagnosis.

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  1. Department of Neurology, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology, 35-2 Sakae-cho, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo, 173 Japan, , , , , , JP

    Kazuko Mitani & Hiroshi Yamanouchi

  2. Department of Molecular Biology, Tokyo Institute of Psychiatry, 2-1-8 Kamikitazawa, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, 168 Japan, , , , , , JP

    Yoshiko Furiya, Kazuhiro Ishii & Hiroshi Mori

  3. Department of Neurology, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, 1-5-45 Yushima, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113 Japan, , , , , , JP

    Toshiki Uchihara & Hidehiro Mizusawa

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  1. Kazuko Mitani
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Received: 30 June 1997 Received in revised form: 1 September 1997 Accepted: 7 September 1997

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Mitani, K., Furiya, Y., Uchihara, T. et al. Increased CSF tau protein in corticobasal degeneration. J Neurol 245, 44–46 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/s004150050173

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