A Japanese family with a variant of Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker disease

Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 454-457

  Tanaka, Yutaka ^a   Minematsu, Kazuo ^a   Moriyasu, Hideki ^a   Yamaguchi, Takenori ^a   Yutani, Chikao ^a   Kitamoto, Tetsuyuki ^b   Furukawa, Hisako ^c  

^a NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ataxia; Dementia; Gerstmann Str ussler Scheinker disease; Prion protein

Indexed keywords

CONGO RED; FLUORINE 18; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE; PRION PROTEIN;

ADULT; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; AUTOPSY; BRAIN METABOLISM; CEREBELLUM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEMENTIA; FAMILY STUDY; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GERSTMANN STRAUSSLER SCHEINKER SYNDROME; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PARIETAL LOBE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ADULT; ALLELES; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CODON; GERSTMANN-STRAUSSLER-SCHEINKER DISEASE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PEDIGREE; POINT MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC;

EID: 0030925860     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.62.5.454     Document Type: Article

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