期刊论文

Guo, J.-F.;Gao, C.-Q.

英文

Movement Disorders

0885-3185

2022

37

9

1807-1816

10.1002/mds.29180

We thank Professor Nai-Chang Yu, Xuan Wu Hospital, Beijing, China; Professor Postuma, Department of Neurology, Montreal General Hospital, Montreal, Canada; Professor Takwoingi, Test Evaluation Research Group, Institute of Applied Health Research, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham; and Dr. Laura Wu, UTMB (University of Texas Medical Branch) Neurology Department for their invaluable comments and suggestions on the manuscript. We thank all the participants who volunteered for this study. We also thank Mr. Ying-Qing Li and Mr. Ling-Jun Meng who were involved in training the dogs in the early stages of the work. We are grateful to all the nurses in the eighth ward of the Department of Neurology of the Third Xiang-Ya Hospital who helped us to collect samples in the early stage of the study. We extend our gratitude to Professor Xing-Jun Jiang and his team and all other people who worked with us in recent years caring for our dogs as well as those who have cared about and supported our research.

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