In contrast to the studies outlined above, Dieriks et al. (2017) did not detect any difference in the number of TNTs formed in isolated brain pericytes or SH-SY5Y neuroblastoma cells when stably expressed with α-synuclein-A53T-EGFP, α-synuclein-WT-EGFP, α-synuclein-WT-mCherry or non-fused mCherry as a control. The gene discussed is SNCA; the disease is neuroblastoma.