Molecular analysis of prion protein (PrP) and glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) transcripts in experimental Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in mice

Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 85-90

  Kordek, Radzislaw ^a,b   Liberski, Pawel P ^a,b   Yanagihara, Richard ^a   Isaacson, Stuart ^a   Gajdusek, D Carleton ^a  

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

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LODZ   (Poland)

Author keywords

Glial fibrillary acidic protein; Prion protein

Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; PRION PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB SYNDROME; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MIDDLE AGED; PRIONS; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 0030916678     PISSN: 00651400     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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