Fatal familial insomnia: A new Austrian family

Brain

Volumn 122, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 5-16

  Almer, G ^a   Hainfellner, J A ^b   Brucke T ^a,f   Jellinger, K ^c   Kleinert, R ^g   Bayer, G ^g   Windl, O ^g   Kretzschmar, H A ^g   Hill, A ^d   Sidle, K ^d   Collinge, J ^d   Budka, H ^b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c GENERAL HOSPITAL LINZ   (Austria)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^f WILHELMINEN HOSPITAL   (Austria)

^g NONE

Author keywords

Fatal familial insomnia; Prion diseases; Prion protein; Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies

Indexed keywords

METHIONINE; PRION PROTEIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOSIS; AUSTRIA; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; AUTOPSY; BRAIN STEM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE DURATION; FAMILY; FATAL FAMILIAL INSOMNIA; FEMALE; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INSOMNIA; MALE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; OLIVARY NUCLEUS; ONSET AGE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WEIGHT REDUCTION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ADULT; AUSTRIA; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BRAIN; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PEDIGREE; PRIONS; PRPSC PROTEINS; SLEEP INITIATION AND MAINTENANCE DISORDERS;

EID: 0032905278     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/122.1.5     Document Type: Article

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