Identification in Israel of 2 Jewish Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease patients with a 178 mutation at their PrP gene

Acta Neurologica Scandinavica

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 184-187

  Rosenmann, H ^a   Vardi, J ^b   Finkelstein, Y ^b   Chapman, J ^c   Gabizon, R ^a  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b SHAARE ZEDEK MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Creutzfeldt Jakob disease; D178N mutation; Prion diseases

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT DISORDER; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; ISRAEL; MALE; NERVE DEGENERATION; PRION DISEASE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0031802443     PISSN: 00016314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0404.1998.tb00634.x     Document Type: Article

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