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S4E04: The Where and When of Alzheimer’s Disease

Two Scientists Walk Into a Bar

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Do You Know What Tow Is?

Tow was originally a discovered and is described as a microtubue associated protein. It can help to stabilize microtubules. But it's interesting, in our studies of trying to understand what its function is, people have made knock out mice where they've knocked out the tagen,. And by end large, these mice are actually fine. So it doesn't seem to be essential. Coud be that there's some other microtoble stabilizing proteins that are compensating for its loss.

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