fibril

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From the rough region of where the brain stem meets the thalamus—the structure that relays sensory signals to the cerebral cortex—individual fibrils appear to explode outward.

From Scientific American

If the fibrils are cut, the cirri fall limp.

From Scientific American

“We couldn’t believe this when we first saw this. And we started giving it crazy names like campfires and dark fibrils and ghosts and whatever we saw.”

From New York Times

Rauch et al. also found that the loss of LRP1 only partially blocked the uptake of larger ‘fibril fragments’ of tau.

From Nature

Three decades ago, Hof explains, research in Alzheimer’s linked two key proteins with the terrible dissolution of selves: beta-amyloid, which formed plaques between neurons; and tau, which formed tangled fibrils within neurons.

From The New Yorker