Neurofilament Light: A Dynamic Cross-Disease Fluid Biomarker for Neurodegeneration

In the current issue of Neuron, Bacioglu, Maia, and colleagues show that neurofilament light concentrations in body fluids reflect pathology and symptoms in mouse models of cerebral proteopathies and that these findings translate to human disease (Bacioglu et al., 2016).

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