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Lawrence Steinman1, S Sohail Ahmed2
1Neurology and Neuroscience, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA. steinman@stanford.edu sohail.q.ahmed@gsk.com.
Science Translational Medicine
|November 20, 2015
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Vassalli et al.'s study does not involve or provide additional data regarding influenza virus, influenza vaccines, human samples, animal models of narcolepsy, or experiments related to mimicry and cross-reactivity. They present data on the distribution of hypocretin (HCRT) (also known as orexin) receptors in the brain of an engineered mouse developed by them.
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