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Contact: Karen Kreeger
karen.kreeger@uphs.upenn.edu
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University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

ALS Disease Protein

Caption: Whole-brain density map of TDP-43 distribution throughout central nervous system of ALS patients. Red, orange, and yellow depict areas of highest density of TDP-43 pathology.

Credit: Felix Geser and Nick Brandmeir, University of Pennsylvania; Archives of Neurology

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