Prion protein fragment interacts with PrP-deficient cells

Journal of Neuroscience Research

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 260-267

  Brown, David R ^a,b   Schmidt, Bernhard ^a   Kretzschmar, Hans A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Mouse; Neurotoxic; Taxol; Tubulin

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CELL METABOLISM; MOUSE; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BRAIN; CELLS, CULTURED; COLCHICINE; DRUG SYNERGISM; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEURONS; PACLITAXEL; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PRIONS; TUBULIN;

EID: 0032080434     PISSN: 03604012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4547(19980501)52:3<260::AID-JNR2>3.0.CO;2-B     Document Type: Article

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