Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: Co-occurrence of different types of PrP(Sc) in the same brain

Neurology

Volumn 53, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 2173-2176

  Puoti, G ^a   Giaccone, G ^a   Rossi, G ^a   Canciani, B ^a   Bugiani, O ^a   Tagliavini, Fabrizio ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF NEUROSURGERY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Creutzfeldt Jakob disease; Neuropathology; Prion protein; Western blot analysis

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN SPONGIOSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0032763817     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/wnl.53.9.2173     Document Type: Article

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