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Voltage-gated potassium channel complex antibodies in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

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Acknowledgments

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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  1. Department of Clinical Neuroscience, The University of Tokushima Graduate School, 3-18-15 Kuramoto-cho, Tokushima, 770-8503, Japan

    Koji Fujita, Yuishin Izumi & Ryuji Kaji

  2. Department of Neurology, Kamagaya-Chiba Medical Center for Intractable Neurological Disease, Kamagaya General Hospital, Kamagaya, 273-0121, Japan

    Tatsuhiko Yuasa

  3. Department of Neurology and Geriatrics, Kagoshima University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Kagoshima, 890-8520, Japan

    Osamu Watanabe

  4. National Epilepsy Center, Shizuoka Institute of Epilepsy and Neurological Disorders, Shizuoka, 420-8688, Japan

    Yukitoshi Takahashi

  5. Department of Neurology, National Hospital Organization Tokushima Hospital, Yoshinogawa, 776-8585, Japan

    Shuji Hashiguchi & Katsuhito Adachi

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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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