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Oligodendrocyte Dysfunction in Tauopathy: A Less Explored Area in Tau-Mediated Neurodegeneration.

Moumita Majumder, Debashis Dutta

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Review in Cells, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. When myelin breaks, tau aggregates - a new perspective on Alzheimer's disease.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2026
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  3. In vivo mapping of cortical amyloid beta-myelin coupling in preclinical Alzheimer's disease.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2026
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  5. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
    Article
  6. Emerging Role of Oligodendrocytes Malfunction in the Progression of Alzheimer's Disease.Journal of neuroimmune pharmacology : the official journal of the Society on NeuroImmune Pharmacology · 2025
    Review
  7. Astrocyte and oligodendrocyte pathology in Alzheimer's disease.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Moumita MajumderDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA.
Debashis DuttaDepartment of Pediatrics, Darby's Children Research Institute, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0086-3581

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Aggregation of the microtubule-associated protein tau (MAPT) is the hallmark pathology in a spectrum of neurodegenerative disorders collectively called tauopathies. Physiologically, tau is an inherent neuronal protein that plays an important role in the assembly of microtubules and axonal transport. However, disease-associated mutations of this protein reduce its binding to the microtubule components and promote self-aggregation, leading to formation of tangles in neurons. Tau is also expressed in oligodendrocytes, where it has significant developmental roles in oligodendrocyte maturation and myelin synthesis. Oligodendrocyte-specific tau pathology, in the form of fibrils and coiled coils, is evident in major tauopathies including progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), corticobasal degeneration (CBD), and Pick's disease (PiD). Multiple animal models of tauopathy expressing mutant forms of MAPT recapitulate oligodendroglial tau inclusions with potential to cause degeneration/malfunction of oligodendrocytes and affecting the neuronal myelin sheath. Till now, mechanistic studies heavily concentrated on elucidating neuronal tau pathology. Therefore, more investigations are warranted to comprehensively address tau-induced pathologies in oligodendrocytes. The present review provides the current knowledge available in the literature about the intricate relations between tau and oligodendrocytes in health and diseases.

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OligodendrogliaTauopathiestau ProteinsAnimalsHumansNeurodegenerative Diseasestau ProteinsMAPTmyelinneurodegenerationoligodendrocytestauopathy

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PMID38994964
PMCPMC11240328

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