Fatal familial insomnia with an unusual prion protein deposition pattern: An autopsy report with an experimental transmission study

Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 80-87

  Sasaki, Kensuke ^a   Doh Ura, K ^a   Wakisaka, Y ^a   Tomoda, H ^b   Iwaki, T ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Imazu Sekijuji Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Creutzfeldt Jakob disease; NZW mouse; Priori disease; Thalamic form; Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN; PROTEINASE RESISTANT PRION PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASIAN; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; AUTOPSY; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN HOMOGENATE; BRAIN SPONGIOSIS; CASE REPORT; CELL LOSS; CEREBELLAR ATAXIA; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; DELIRIUM; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EXPERIMENTAL TRANSMISSION; EXPERIMENTATION; FATAL FAMILIAL INSOMNIA; FEMALE; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; HEREDITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFERIOR OLIVE; INOCULATION; JAPANESE; MALE; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; MYOCLONUS; NEURONAL LOSS; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NEW ZEALAND BLACK MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRION DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRP GENE; THALAMUS;

AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN PRECURSOR; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BRAIN; FERRITINS; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INSOMNIA, FATAL FAMILIAL; MALE; MICE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; PEDIGREE; PRIONS;

EID: 13544273818     PISSN: 03051846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2990.2004.00592.x     Document Type: Article

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