supported by the NIH grant7R21 NS09662 7-02 to PFF;the Winston and Maxine Wallin Neuroscience Discovery Fund award CON000000083928 to PFF and AC。
The prion protein(PrP) is the key molecular and pathological mediator of prion diseases,a heterogeneous group of brain disorders with fatal outcomes.Prion diseases are rare but deserve special attention because of the...
Work at the authors’laboratories is supported by grants from"la Caixa"Foundation;Grant Agreement LCF/PR/HR21/52410002;EJP RD COFUND-EJP N°825575"Alexander"to DPS and MP;Agencia Estatal de Investigacion,MICINN and ERDF Grant No.RTI2018-097624-B-I00 and PID2021-126827OB-I00 to DPS;grants from the Swedish Research Council(2017-02255);ALF Gothenburg(146051);The Swedish Society for Medical Research,Hj?rnfonden,S?derberg’s Foundations,Hagstr?mer’s Foundation Millennium,Ami?v’s Foundation,E.Jacobson’s Donation Fund,the Swedish Stroke Foundation,NanoNet COST Action(BM1002),EU FP 7 Program TargetBraln(279017)to MP。
Alexander disease is a rare neurodegenerative disorder caused by mutations in the glial fibrillary acidic protein,a type III intermediate filament protein expressed in astrocytes.Both early(infantile or juvenile)and a...