Neurofilaments in blood is a new promising preclinical biomarker for the screening of natural scrapie in sheep

• Henrik Zetterberg,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Clinical Neurochemistry Laboratory, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Mölndal, Sweden, Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, Department of Psychiatry and Neurochemistry, The Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Mölndal, Sweden, Department of Neurodegenerative Disease, UCL Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London, United Kingdom, UK Dementia Research Institute at UCL, University College London, London, United Kingdom

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• Elena Bozzetta,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Istituto zooprofilattico del Piemonte Liguria e Valle d’Aosta, Turin, Italy

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• Alessandra Favole,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Istituto zooprofilattico del Piemonte Liguria e Valle d’Aosta, Turin, Italy

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4110-4327

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• Cristiano Corona,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Istituto zooprofilattico del Piemonte Liguria e Valle d’Aosta, Turin, Italy

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• Maria Concetta Cavarretta,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Istituto zooprofilattico del Piemonte Liguria e Valle d’Aosta, Turin, Italy

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• Francesco Ingravalle,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Istituto zooprofilattico del Piemonte Liguria e Valle d’Aosta, Turin, Italy

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• Kaj Blennow,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Clinical Neurochemistry Laboratory, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Mölndal, Sweden, Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, Department of Psychiatry and Neurochemistry, The Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Mölndal, Sweden

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• Maurizio Pocchiari,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Neuroscience, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Roma, Italy

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7269-2486

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• Daniela Meloni

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: daniela.meloni@izsto.it

  Affiliation Istituto zooprofilattico del Piemonte Liguria e Valle d’Aosta, Turin, Italy

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9983-822X

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