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People with Pick's disease have abnormal substances (called Pick bodies and Pick cells) inside nerve cells in the damaged areas of the brain. Pick bodies and Pick cells contain an abnormal form of a protein called tau.

Source:ADAM

Date:February 6, 2008

Pick Disease

The molecular cause of Pick disease are a series of mutations linked to chromosomes 17, 9 and 3. One of these mutations is located on the long arm of chromosome 17(17q35) at the locus known to hold the gene for the tau protein, and accounts for be...

Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Neurological Disorders

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