Potential treatment of transthyretin-type amyloidoses by sulfite

Neurogenetics

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 183-188

  Altland, Klaus ^a   Winter, Pia ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy; Sulfite; Transthyretin

Indexed keywords

PREALBUMIN; SULFITE;

AMYLOID NEUROPATHY; AMYLOIDOSIS; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; CARDIOMYOPATHY; DRUG EFFECT; FAMILIAL DISEASE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; ISOELECTRIC FOCUSING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

AMYLOID NEUROPATHIES; HUMANS; LIGANDS; POINT MUTATION; PREALBUMIN; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SULFITES; TITRIMETRY; UREA;

EID: 0032872364     PISSN: 13646745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s100480050081     Document Type: Article

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