Electron microscopic studies of the optic nerve in experimental scrapie and the panencephalopathic type of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

Folia Neuropathologica

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 255-258

  Waliś, Anna ^a   Liberski, Paweł P ^a,b   Brown, Paul ^a,b   Gajdusek, D Carleton ^a,b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LODZ   (Poland)

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

Author keywords

Creutzfeldt Jakob disease; Optic nerves; Scrapie; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CELL VACUOLE; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; HAMSTER; MOUSE; OPTIC NERVE; PATHOLOGY; SCRAPIE; SYRIAN HAMSTER; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB SYNDROME; CRICETINAE; MESOCRICETUS; MICE; OPTIC NERVE; SCRAPIE; VACUOLES;

EID: 0031292492     PISSN: 00283894     EISSN: 1509572X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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