Submicroscopic immunodetection of PrP in the brain of a patient with a new-variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 264, Issue 1-3, 1999, Pages 57-60

  Grigoriev, Vladimir ^a   Escaig Haye, Françoise ^a   Streichenberger, Nathalie ^b   Kopp, Nicolas ^b   Langeveld, Jan ^c   Brown, Paul ^d   Fournier, Jean Guy ^a  

^a PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^b Center de Neuropathologie   (France)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

Author keywords

Creutzfeldt Jakob disease; Florid plaques; Immuno electron microscopy; Prion protein; Synapse

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; PERIKARYON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION;

ADULT; BRAIN; CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB SYNDROME; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; ORGANELLES; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; PRPSC PROTEINS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; VACUOLES;

EID: 0033515796     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(99)00146-9     Document Type: Article

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