protein - a protein that helps the functioning of microtubules, which are part of the cell's structural support and help to deliver substances throughout the cell. In Alzheimer's disease, tau is changed in a way that causes it to twist into pairs of helical filaments that collect into tangles.

a protein that is a principal component of the paired helical filaments in neurofibrillary tangles; tau helps to maintain the structure of microtubules in normal nerve cells.

A protein usually found inside normally functioning brain cells to maintain cell structure and function, although they form tangles in Alzheimer patients.

Bull, force; opposite from cow, which is receptivity. A time of the zodiac, when nature enforces growth. In some countries, the church representative is a white bull; in others, as the Roman catholic, the pope issues a bull merely as an edict.

Bull, force. Opposite from cow, receptivity, 598.54.

Terminal Adaptor Unit; the digital equivalent of a modem

Technical Advisory Unit, a JISC sponsored service, performs regular monitoring of JANET, JISCMail and the National Cache, and advises JISC on technical matters.

Tribal Affairs Unit in the DHFS Office of Strategic Finance.

Tau is the name of an evil spirit in Guaraní mythology. Although Tau is not quite synonymous with the Devil in Christian beliefs, for example, he was sometimes referred to as The Evil Spirit and as such may have been a personification of evil itself. Tau was created along with his opposite, Angatupyry, by the supreme god of the Guaraní creation myth, Tupa, and left with humanity on Earth.

Tau is a brand of drinking water in glass bottles distributed by the company Ty Nant. It is available in 750ml (25 fl oz) or 330ml (11 fl oz) bottles, sparkling or still water. The company said that they drilled a new borehole into the spring located in Llanon, Wales specifically for this product.

In the universe of Games Workshop's table-top wargame Warhammer 40,000, the Tauhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tau_%28Warhammer_40%2C000%29/archive are an alien race, inhabiting a small but dense region of space on the eastern edge of the Milky Way Galaxy, roughly 300 light years in diameter. The Tau were first introduced to Warhammer 40,000 in late 2001, the result of Games Workshop's plan to introduce a new race to the game .

The nineteenth letter (T, t) of the Greek alphabet, equivalent to English t.

The common American toadfish; -- so called from a marking resembling the Greek letter tau (t).

the 19th letter of the Greek alphabet

Table A Uplift

Expresses the price change of an option for a percentage change in the implied volatility.

Expresses the change in the price of an option if the implicit volatility changes by 1%.

The ‘natural' period of a biological rhythm free-running in constant conditions.

See Thermal time constant (T.C. or tau, ).

Often used as a name for the time constant.

(): The third flavor of charged lepton (in order of increasing mass), with electric charge -1.

TAU is a set of tools for analyzing the performance of C, C++, Fortran and Java programs.

(part) plural marker, used before nouns.

Treatment As Usual

this term refers to an organism's period length

Taurus