Neuronal inclusions in sporadic motor neuron disease are negative for alpha-synuclein
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Acknowledgments
The authors thank Prof. Takeshi Iwatsubo (Department of Neuropathology and Neuroscience, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo) for the donation of a polyclonal anti-α-synuclein antibody (anti-PSer 129). This work was supported by a Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (C) from the Japanese Ministry of Education, Science and Culture.
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