What accounts for the safety-efficacy profile differences between tau immunotherapy and other tau-targeting approaches?

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The abstract describes tau immunotherapy as ‘relatively safe and efficacious but narrow’ compared to other approaches, without explaining the underlying mechanisms for these distinct therapeutic profiles. This limits optimization of tau-targeting strategies.

Gap type: unexplained_observation Source paper: Early investigational drugs targeting tau protein for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease. (2015, Expert opinion on investigational drugs, PMID:26289787)

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