Agents that cause transmissible subacute spongiform encephalopathies

Biomedicine and Pharmacotherapy

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 3-8

  Dormont, D ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE RADIOPROTECTION ET DE SÛRETÉ NUCLÉAIRE   (France)

Author keywords

Prions; PrP; Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN; PROTEINASE K;

ARTICLE; BRAIN SPONGIOSIS; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HYPOTHESIS; INCUBATION TIME; PATHOGENESIS; PRION; PRION DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; VIRUS INACTIVATION; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 0033081714     PISSN: 07533322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0753-3322(99)80053-5     Document Type: Article

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