Brief report: Apolipoprotein e ε4 allele does not correlate with amyloid plaques in transmissible spongiform encephalopathies

Amyloid

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 36-38

  Dranovsky, Alex ^a   Goldfarb, Lev ^b   Gajdusek, D Carleton ^b   Goldgaber, Dmitry ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Amyloid; Apolipoprotein E; Plaques; Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy

Indexed keywords

EID: 0029136578     PISSN: 13506129     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/13506129509031886     Document Type: Article

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