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Restraining mice for half an hour, a situation that replicates the body’s reaction to low-level anxiety, fear or social stress, resulted only in a transient phosphorylation of tau. However, when Rissman simulated chronic stress by repeating the procedure every day for two weeks, the modification lasted long enough to let tau molecules tumble off the cytoskeleton and pile up in insoluble heaps of protein.
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