STX1A and Stroke: Pearson’s and Spearman’s correlation analysis of STX-1a levels, in both PBMCs and NDEs, lead us to hypothesize that the presence of STX-1a is correlated with the IS pathology since it is associated with NIH-SS clinical scale, which is among the most frequent clinical and demographical scale associate with stroke mortality33 and with BI, that measures the performance in activities of daily living34.