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Temporal evolution of sporadic Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease monitored by 3-Tesla MR spectroscopy

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Acknowledgments

We thank Tetsuyuki Kitamoto (Tohoku University, analyses of PRNP and pathology); Shuji Hashiguchi and Katsuhito Adachi (Tokushima Hospital, clinical care and the necropsy procedure); Katsuya Satoh (Nagasaki University, measurement of 14-3-3 protein); and Toshiaki Sano (The University of Tokushima, necropsy procedure). 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.

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

    Koji Fujita, Yuishin Izumi & Ryuji Kaji

  2. Department of Medical Imaging, Institute of Health Biosciences, The University of Tokushima Graduate School, Tokushima, Japan

    Masafumi Harada

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

    Tatsuhiko Yuasa

  4. Advanced Medical Science Center, Iwate Medical University, Morioka, Japan

    Makoto Sasaki

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Fujita, K., Harada, M., Yuasa, T. et al. Temporal evolution of sporadic Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease monitored by 3-Tesla MR spectroscopy. J Neurol 258, 1368–1370 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00415-011-5939-7

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