Decreased Levels of VAMP2 and Monomeric Alpha-Synuclein Correlate with Duration of Dementia

The main funding was provided by the Alzheimer’s Society UK and the BUPA Foundation. The research in Newcastle was supported in part by the Dunhill Medical Trust (R173/1110). Tissue for this study was provided by (i) the Newcastle Brain Tissue Resource; (ii) the London Neurodegenerative Brain Bank; and (iii) the Thomas Willis Oxford Brain Collection. All three resources are funded in part by grants from the UK Medical Research Council and by Brains for Dementia Research, a joint venture between Alzheimer’s Society and Alzheimer’s Research UK. Professor Margaret Esiri and Drs. Olaf Ansorge, Safa Al-Sarraj, Istvan Bodi, and Andrew King are thanked for neuropathological diagnosis of cases. Dr. Claire Troakes at the MRC London Neurodegenerative Diseases Brain Bank is thanked for supplying tissue sections. The authors express their thanks to all the donors and brain banks for the tissue used in this study. This Newcastle Brain Tissue Resource is supported by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Newcastle Biomedical Research Unit based at Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Newcastle University and the Medical Research Council and Brains for Dementia Research. The MRC London Neurodegenerative Diseases Brain Bank is funded by the Medical Research Council and Brains for Dementia Research. TH has received salary support from the Hungarian Brain Research Programme Grant No. KTIA_13_NAP-A-II/7. CB would like to thank the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Mental Health Biomedical Research Centre and Dementia Unit at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and [Institute of psychiatry] King’s College London. This article presents independent research supported/funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR). The views expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the NHS, the NIHR or the Department of Health.