Fig. 8: Major transcriptomic changes and pathway alterations are found primarily at 6 months with high tau inclusion density.

a Heatmap shows hierarchical clustering of major gene expression changes between nTg and tau SPAM mice at 2, 4, and 6 months. b Volcano plot shows 473 differentially expressed genes between 6-month-old tau SPAM and nTg mice. c Top-ten significantly altered genes in tau SPAM mice based on fold change are listed in a table. d Major gene ontology enrichment and significant pathways are altered in tau SPAM mice, including lipid metabolism, proteostasis and cell death, synaptic transmission, inflammatory response, and mitochondrial processes.