Shen, Pingping
Dang, Johnny
Wang, Zerui
Zhang, Weiguanliu
Yuan, Jue
Lang, Yue
Ding, Mingxuan
Mitchell, Marcus
Kong, Qingzhong
Feng, Jiachun
Rozemuller, Annemiek J. M.
Cui, Li
Petersen, Robert B.
Zou, Wen-Quan http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8062-0370
Funding for this research was provided by:
CJD Foundation
Article History
Received: 22 April 2020
Accepted: 25 August 2020
First Online: 5 September 2020
Compliance With Ethical Standards
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: The use of autopsy human brain tissues was authorized by the Institutional Review Board of University Hospital Cleveland Medical Center and Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, or by the Medical Ethics Committee of the University Medical Centre Utrecht 11-531/C, the Netherlands. The consents were received for each case through the Dutch Surveillance Centre for Prion Diseases (DSCPD), Utrecht, Netherlands, or the National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center (NPDPSC), Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, for research on retained tissues after written informed consents given by the patients during life or their next of kin after death. Postmortem examinations, if permission was available, were carried out in DSCPS or NPDPSC. All information was analyzed anonymously.
: The manuscript contains no any individual person’s data in any form.
: The authors report that they have no competing interests.