Contraction of human brain vascular pericytes in response to islet amyloid polypeptide is reversed by pramlintide.

"availability of data and materials the dataset supporting the conclusions of this article is available via proteomexchange with the identifier pxd035048. all data were analyzed anonymously. table 1"

"Declarations Ethics approval and consent to participateInformed consent for using human tissue and clinical data for research was obtained from the patients or their closest relative in accordance with the International Declaration of Helsinki and the Code of conduct for Brain Banking. The medical ethics committee of VU Amsterdam approved the tissue collection procedures and the regional ethical board in Lund approved the study. Consent for publicationNot applicable. Competing interestsMalin Wennström has acquired research support (for the institution) from Eli Lilly. Competing interests Malin Wennström has acquired research support (for the institution) from Eli Lilly."

"Funding Open access funding provided by Lund University. This study was financially supported by the Swedish Research Council (MW), Brain Foundation (MW), Olle Engkvists foundation (MW and CND), Dementia Foundation (MW), Greta and Johan Kockska foundation (MW and CND), the Åhlén foundation (MW)."