New-variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

Neuropathology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 131-138

  Ironside, James W ^a  

^a WESTERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amyloid; Bovine spongiform encephalopathy; Neuropathology; New variant Creutzfeldt Jakob disease; Prion protein

Indexed keywords

METHIONINE; PRION PROTEIN;

BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY; BRAIN SPONGIOSIS; CODON; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GENE MUTATION; HOST SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; INCUBATION TIME; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM DISEASE; LYMPHOID CELL; LYMPHOID TISSUE; MOUSE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; ONSET AGE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SYNDROME DELINEATION; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0031876848     PISSN: 09196544     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1789.1998.tb00091.x     Document Type: Review

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