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. 2022 Sep 27:16:1002770.
doi: 10.3389/fnins.2022.1002770. eCollection 2022.

SARS-CoV-2, long COVID, prion disease and neurodegeneration

Yuhai Zhao  1   2 , Vivian R Jaber  2 , Walter J Lukiw  2   3   4
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SARS-CoV-2, long COVID, prion disease and neurodegeneration

Yuhai Zhao et al. Front Neurosci. .
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Keywords: Alzheimer's disease (AD); Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease (CJD); SARS-CoV-2; long COVID-19; miRNA-146a; miRNA-155; prion disease (PrD); ‘S1’ spike protein.

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