Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease and Inclusion Body Myositis: Abundant Disease-Associated Prion Protein in Muscle

Annals of Neurology

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 121-125

  Kovacs, Gabor G ^a,b   Lindeck Pozza, Elisabeth ^a   Chimelli, Leila ^c   Araújo, Abelardo Q C ^c   Gabbai, Alberto A ^d   Ströbel, Thomas ^a   Glatzel, Markus ^e   Aguzzi, Adriano ^e   Budka, Herbert ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY AND NEUROLOGY   (Hungary)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INCLUSION BODY MYOSITIS; MALE; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRION DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SKELETAL MUSCLE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AGED; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BRAIN; CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB SYNDROME; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYOSITIS, INCLUSION BODY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRPC PROTEINS; PRPSC PROTEINS;

EID: 0347949706     PISSN: 03645134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ana.10813     Document Type: Article

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