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  • 1From the Departments of Neurology (F.S.S., N.S., K.S., B.H., B.F., G.K.W., W.P.) and Gastroenterology (W.V.), Medical University of Innsbruck, Austria; Neurological Tissue Bank of the Biobanc-Hospital Clinic de Barcelona (E.G.), IDIBAPS; the Departments of Neurology (J.N.-O., D.V., F.V., C.P.-S., C.G., A.I., E.T.), Pathology (I.A., M.C.), and Gastroenterology (A.G.), Hospital Clinic de Barcelona, Spain; and the Institute of Pathology (F.O.), Academic Teaching Hospital, Feldkirch, Austria.

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