Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, amyloidoses and yeast prions: Common threads?

Nature Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 751-754

  Caughey, Byron ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID; PRION PROTEIN;

AMYLOIDOSIS; HUMAN; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PRION DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; REVIEW; YEAST;

AMYLOID; AMYLOIDOSIS; ANIMALS; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PRION DISEASES; PRIONS; PROTEIN FOLDING;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 0033913783     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/77476     Document Type: Review

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