Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

tau protein

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.26 in modern English

Syllables: tau pro-tein
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A protein abundant especially in the neurons of the human central nervous system that stabilizes microtubules, and when misfolded is associated with forms of dementia such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases.

Example Sentences

"[Bennet] Omalu’s experimental breakthrough – along with UCLA researchers – uses positron-emission tomography (PET scan) and a radioactive “tracer” called FDDNP to bind to tau proteins in the brain."

Inflected Forms

tau proteins (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

MAPT tauopathy

Synonyms

tau

Questions

What does tau protein mean?: A protein abundant especially in the neurons of the human central nervous system that stabilizes microtubules, and when misfolded is associated with forms of dementia such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases.

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