Unger, Peter-Paul A.
Oja, Anna E.
Khemai-Mehraban, Tamana
Ouwendijk, Werner J. D.
Hombrink, Pleun
Verjans, Georges M. G. M.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Dutch MS Research Foundation (17-955 MS, 17-955 MS)
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (75N93019C00063)
Article History
Received: 14 June 2022
Accepted: 27 September 2022
First Online: 6 October 2022
Declarations
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: Peripheral blood was obtained from healthy donors upon informed consent in accordance with local ethical committee approval (Sanquin Research, Amsterdam, The Netherlands), the Declaration of Helsinki and the Dutch rules with respect to the use of human materials from volunteer donors. Paired nervous tissue biopsies and peripheral blood were collected from deceased brain donors by the Netherlands Brain Bank (NBB; Amsterdam, The Netherlands). The NBB obtained in advance written informed consent for brain autopsy, use of clinical specimens and clinical information for research purposes from all study participants. All procedures of the NBB have been approved by Ethics Committee of Amsterdam University Medical Center (VUmc, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; project number 2009/148) and are in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.