Intracerebral distribution of the abnormal isoform of the prion protein in sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and fatal insomnia

Microscopy Research and Technique

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 16-25

  Parchi, Piero ^a,b   Capellari, Sabina ^a,b   Gambetti, Pierluigi ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Brain mapping; Dementia; Neurodegeneration; Prion protein gene; Prion strains

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; PROTEINS;

CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB DISEASE; DEMENTIA; ISOFORMS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NEURODEGENERATION; PRION DISEASE; PRION PROTEIN; PRION PROTEIN GENE; PRION STRAIN; SPORADICS;

PRASEODYMIUM COMPOUNDS;

ISOPROTEIN; PRION PROTEIN;

AMYLOIDOSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; DNA POLYMORPHISM; FATAL FAMILIAL INSOMNIA; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN GLYCOSYLATION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION;

EID: 0034234437     PISSN: 1059910X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1097-0029(20000701)50:1<16::AID-JEMT4>3.0.CO;2-Y     Document Type: Article

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