MechanismsHuman trial

Acute total sleep deprivation transiently increases plasma total tau but not plasma P-tau181 in healthy adults

Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience

The paper

Beiyu Zhao, Meng Wei, Suhang Shang,

Ling Gao, Shan Wei, Liangjun Dang, Jie Liu, Chen Chen, Yanbo Li, Jin Wang, Fan Gao,

First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University

Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience · 17 Aug 2026

doi.org/10.3389/fnagi.2026.1904137 PubMed 42676723

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