The shifting biology of prions

Brain Research Reviews

Volumn 36, Issue 2-3, 2001, Pages 241-248

  Glatzel, Markus ^a   Aguzzi, Adriano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Creutzfeldt Jacob disease; Neuroinvasion; Prion protein; Protein only hypothesis; PrPC; PrPSc; Scrapie; Transgenic mice; Transmissible spongiform encephalopathie

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; ARGININE; ASPARAGINE; ASPARTIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; HISTIDINE; ISOLEUCINE; LYSINE; METHIONINE; OCTAPEPTIDE; PENTOSAN POLYSULFATE; PHENYLALANINE; PHTHALOCYANINE DERIVATIVE; PORPHYRIN; PRION PROTEIN; PROLINE; SERINE; VALINE;

ALEUTIAN MINK DISEASE; BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG EFFECT; FATAL FAMILIAL INSOMNIA; GENE INSERTION; GERSTMANN STRAUSSLER SCHEINKER SYNDROME; GLIOSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; KURU; MISSENSE MUTATION; NERVE DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; PRION; PRION DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETICULOENDOTHELIAL SYSTEM; REVIEW; SCRAPIE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WASTING SYNDROME;

ANIMALS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB SYNDROME; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PRION DISEASES; PRIONS; SCRAPIE;

EID: 0034752088     PISSN: 01650173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-0173(01)00100-X     Document Type: Review

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