Fatal familial insomnia: Genetic, neuropathologic, and biochemical study of a patient from a new Italian kindred

Neurology

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 688-692

  Rossi, G ^a   Macchi, G ^c   Porro, M ^a   Giaccone, G ^a   Bugiani, M ^a   Scarpini, E ^b   Scarlato, G ^b   Molini, G E ^d   Sasanelli, F ^d   Bugiani, O ^a   Tagliavini, Fabrizio ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF NEUROSURGERY   (Italy)

^b FONDAZIONE IRCCS CA GRANDA OSPEDALE MAGGIORE POLICLINICO   (Italy)

^c CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^d Ospedale Predabissi   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARAGINE; ASPARTIC ACID; METHIONINE; PRION PROTEIN;

ADULT; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; BRAIN DEGENERATION; CASE REPORT; CODON; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; FATAL FAMILIAL INSOMNIA; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; ITALY; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THALAMUS;

EID: 0031918782     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.50.3.688     Document Type: Article

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