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Commentary: Chronic PD-1 Checkpoint Blockade Does Not Affect Cognition or Promote Tau Clearance in a Tauopathy Mouse Model.

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  • Reviewed by: Yona Levites, University of Florida, United States Merina Varghese, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, United States

  • Treatment started at the age of 2 months and outcome measurements were tested at the ages of 4 to 8 months

  • Given the above-described previous reports by this team, it is surprising that the current study (Lin et al, 2020) is based upon results from an experiment performed using 22 female JNPL3 mice at the advanced age of 10–11 months, much older than previously used and at which according to the authors—the female mice suffer from severe motor disability

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Reviewed by: Yona Levites, University of Florida, United States Merina Varghese, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, United States. In a recent paper in Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience (Lin et al, 2020), the authors purported to examine treatment efficacy of Programmed cell death protein (PD)-1 antibody blockade in a tauopathy mouse model in a weekly administration regimen, which the authors refer to as “chronic,” supposedly based on the studies by Schwartz’s team (Baruch et al, 2016; Rosenzweig et al, 2019).

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