Endogenous retroviruses and TDP-43 proteinopathy form a sustaining feedback driving intercellular spread of Drosophila neurodegeneration

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Inter-cellular movement of "prion-like" proteins is thought to explain propagation of neurodegeneration between cells. For example, propagation of abnormally phosphorylated cytoplasmic inclusions of TAR-DNA-Binding protein (TDP-43) is proposed to underlie progression of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD). But unlike transmissible prion diseases, ALS and FTD are not infectious...

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