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Acknowledgments

The authors’ research groups have been supported by the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq), Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ), Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP), Programa Institutos Nacionais de Ciência e Tecnologia (CNPq/MCT), Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Weston Brain Institute, Brain Canada, The Alzheimer’s Association (USA), The Alzheimer’s Society (Canada), and PrioNet-Canada. V.R.M. is an International Scholar of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

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Linden, R., Martins, V.R., Prado, M.A.M. (2018). Prion (PRNP). In: Choi, S. (eds) Encyclopedia of Signaling Molecules. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67199-4_390

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