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TDP-43 plasma levels do not differentiate sporadic inclusion body myositis from other inflammatory myopathies

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Acknowledgments

M. M. Verbeek was supported by a grant from the Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO/ZonMW, Vidi program, no. 917.46.331).

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M. M. Verbeek is a consultant to the Schering Plough Research Institute.

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  1. Department of Neurology, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, P.O. Box 9101, 6500 HB, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    H. Bea Kuiperij, Wilson F. Abdo, Baziel G. van Engelen, H. Jurgen Schelhaas & Marcel M. Verbeek

  2. Department of Laboratory Medicine, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, P.O. Box 9101, 6500 HB, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    H. Bea Kuiperij & Marcel M. Verbeek

  3. Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, P.O. Box 9101, 6500 HB, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    Wilson F. Abdo

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Kuiperij, H.B., Abdo, W.F., van Engelen, B.G. et al. TDP-43 plasma levels do not differentiate sporadic inclusion body myositis from other inflammatory myopathies. Acta Neuropathol 120, 825–826 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00401-010-0769-8

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