NFT-Specific Tau Vaccine Arrests Tangle Progress
The promising results of immunotherapy for the treatment and prevention of Alzheimer’s disease has sparked an interest in utilizing the same approach for other forms of aging damage, including the clearance of pathological tau species from within neurons. A group led by Dr. Lars Ittner of the University of Sydney has recently published promising results from studies using a vaccine targeted at the neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs) that are characteristic of established tau accumulation.
