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We thank Tetsuyuki Kitamoto, Tohoku University School of Medicine, for analyzing the PRNP, Western blotting of PrPSc, and neuropathology; Katsuya Satoh, Nagasaki University, for 14-3-3 and total tau protein measurement. This work was supported by Grants-in-Aid from the Research Committee of Prion Disease and Slow Virus Infection, the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare of Japan, and Health and Labour Sciences Research Grants for Research on Psychiatry and Neurological Diseases and Mental Health (H20-021).
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Fujita, K., Yuasa, T., Watanabe, O. et al. Voltage-gated potassium channel complex antibodies in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. J Neurol 259, 2249–2250 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00415-012-6554-y
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