Triantafyllou, Maria
Wolff, Nora
Denney, Garrett G.
Crawford, Dylan W.
Bae, Yeji
Sanidas, Georgios
Simonti, Gabriele
Byrd, Chad E.
Koutsogiannaki, Sophia
Freishtat, Robert J.
Deutsch, Gail H.
Gallo, Vittorio
Rastogi, Deepa
Kratimenos, Panagiotis
Koutroulis, Ioannis
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (R21NS135088)
Article History
Received: 26 May 2026
Accepted: 5 September 2026
First Online: 12 September 2026
Declarations
Ethics approval and consent to participate: The human study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of the Children’s National Research Institute (IRB #00015350). Written informed consent was obtained from patients’ families ( n = 6) prior to sample collection and participation, in accordance with this protocol, which covered sample acquisition, clinical data abstraction, analysis, and data sharing. All animal experiments were approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee of Children’s National Hospital (IACUC #00030714) and conducted in accordance with the NIH Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals.
Consent for publication: Not applicable.
Competing interests: The authors declare no competing interests.