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Altered expression of glymphatic system-related proteins in prion diseases: Implications for the role of the glymphatic system in prion diseases

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This work was supported by a National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korean government (MSIT) (2021R1A2C1013213). This research was supported by the Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation (NRF) of Korea funded by the Ministry of Education (2017R1A6A1A03015876). This work was supported by an NRF (National Research Foundation of Korea) Grant funded by the Korean Government (NRF-2019-Fostering Core Leaders of the Future Basic Science Program/Global Ph.D. Fellowship Program). SYW and YCK were supported by the BK21 Plus Program in the Department of Bioactive Material Sciences.

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YCK, SYW and BHJ conceived and designed the experiment. YCK and SYW performed the experiments. YCK, SYW and BHJ analyzed the data. YCK, SYW and BHJ wrote the paper. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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Kim, YC., Won, SY. & Jeong, BH. Altered expression of glymphatic system-related proteins in prion diseases: Implications for the role of the glymphatic system in prion diseases. Cell Mol Immunol 18, 2281–2283 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41423-021-00747-z

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