Prion diseases of humans and animals

Seminars in Virology

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 159-173

  Prusiner, Stanley B ^a   Telling, Glenn ^a   Cohen, Fred E ^a   DeArmond, Stephen J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Neurodegeneration; Prion protein; Protein conformation; Protein X; Scrapie

Indexed keywords

CHAPERONE;

ANIMAL DISEASE; CHROMOSOME; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; HUMAN; NERVE DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PRION; PRION DISEASE; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; REVIEW; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0029951796     PISSN: 10445773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/smvy.1996.0021     Document Type: Review

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