Former graduate student, Dr. Amanda Sacino & colleagues publish in Jan 2016 Acta Neuropathologica
Non-prion-type transmission in A53T alpha-synuclein transgenic mice: a normal component of spinal homogenates from naive non-transgenic mice induces robust alpha-synuclein pathology. Sacino AN, Ayers JI, Brooks MM, Chakrabarty P, Hudson VJ, III, Howard JK, Golde TE, Giasson BI, Borchelt DR. Acta Neuropathol 2016; 131(1):151-154.