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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 09, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 24, 2015
The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, Urbana, IL (US);
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL (US);
Scott Thomas Brady, Chicago, IL (US);
Lester I. Binder, Chicago, IL (US);
Gerardo Andres Morfini, Chicago, IL (US);
Nicholas M. Kanaan, Grand Rapids, MI (US);
Nichole E. LaPointe, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
The Board of Trustes of the University of Illinois, Urbana, IL (US);
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL (US);
Abstract
The present invention is a composition and method for the prevention and treatment of a tauopathy. The composition of the invention includes N-terminal amino acid residues of the tau protein, which have been identified as being involved in toxic activation of a PP1/GSK3 signaling cascade and inhibition of fast axonal transport in human tauopathies.