Evidence for oxidative damage to prion protein in prion diseases

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 45, Issue 17, 2000, Pages 1546-1554

  Yang, Chiming ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Free radicals; Oxidative damage; Prion; Sequence specific; Variant of Creutzfeldt Jakob disease(v CJD)

Indexed keywords

FREE RADICAL; PRION PROTEIN;

BRAIN INFECTION; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; MAMMAL; OXIDATION; PRION; PRION DISEASE; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; PROTEIN FOLDING; REVIEW; SCRAPIE VIRUS; THERMODYNAMICS;

MAMMALIA; SCRAPIE PRION;

EID: 0034479514     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02886210     Document Type: Review

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