Fatal insomnia in a case of familial Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease with the codon 200Lys mutation

Neurology

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 758-761

  Chapman, J ^a,c   Arlazoroff, A ^a   Goldfarb, L G ^b   Cervenakova, L ^b   Neufeld, M Y ^a   Werber, E ^a   Herbert, M ^a   Brown, P ^b   Gajdusek, D C ^b   Korczyn, A D ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

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

^c TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMIC ACID; LYSINE; METHIONINE;

ADULT; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN SPONGIOSIS; CASE REPORT; CODON; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; FAMILIAL DISEASE; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THALAMUS;

AMYLOID; BRAIN; CODON; CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB SYNDROME; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; PRION DISEASES; PRIONS; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; SLEEP INITIATION AND MAINTENANCE DISORDERS;

EID: 0029877723     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.46.3.758     Document Type: Article

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