Cell culture isolation of a transmissible cytotoxicity from a human sample of cerebrospinal fluid

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 375, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 47-52

  Portolani, Marinella ^a   Beretti, Francesca ^a   Cermelli, Claudio ^b   Bartoletti, Anna M ^a   Pietrosemoli, Paola ^a   Bargellini, Annalisa ^b   De Pol, Anto ^b   Rossini, Gian Paolo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cytotoxic cerebrospinal fluid; In vitro transferable cytotoxicity; Misfolded protein

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPROTEIN; PROTEINASE;

ACIDITY; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CELL AGGREGATION; CELL CULTURE; CELL ISOLATION; CELL LINE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; EMBRYO; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYPOTHESIS; INOCULATION; MOLECULE; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; ULTRACENTRIFUGATION; VIRION; VIRUS PARTICLE;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL FRACTIONATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID PROTEINS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, ION EXCHANGE; CYTOTOXINS; DNA FRAGMENTATION; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISCHEMIA; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 12344270003     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2004.10.066     Document Type: Article

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