On February 16, 2023 we got a chance to chat with Rakez Kayed on the tau protein, the key constituent in neurofibrillary tangles that are seen in the brain in Alzheimer's disease, and present in many other kinds of neurodegeneration.  He answered our questions about what tau protein is, how it is changed in neurodegenerative diseases, and what might be done about it.

Guest:  

Rakez Kayed, Professor in the Department of Neurology and the George and Cynthia Mitchell Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston Texas.

Participating: 

George Perry, Department of Neuroscience, Developmental and Regenerative Biology, UTSA

Host: 

Charles Wilson, Department of Neuroscience, Developmental and Regenerative Biology, UTSA