Pathogenesis of prion diseases

Acta Neuropathologica

Volumn 109, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 32-48

  Unterberger, Ursula ^a   Voigtländer, Till ^a   Budka, Herbert ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Immune system; Microglia; Oxidative stress; Peripheral nervous system; Prion pathogenesis

Indexed keywords

3 NITROTYROSINE; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; CALCIUM; CALPAIN; CASPASE 12; CASPASE 3; COMPLEMENT MEMBRANE ATTACK COMPLEX; COPPER ZINC SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; DNA FRAGMENT; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; GLUTATHIONE REDUCTASE; HEME OXYGENASE 1; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; MANGANESE SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; POLY(ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE RIBOSE); PRION PROTEIN; REACTIVE NITROGEN SPECIES; RNA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; CELL FUNCTION; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; COMPLEMENT ACTIVATION; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DNA DAMAGE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LYMPHOID TISSUE; MICROGLIA; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NERVE CELL LESION; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NEUROTOXICITY; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRION DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; CELL DEATH; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; PRION DISEASES; PRIONS;

EID: 14244268370     PISSN: 00016322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00401-004-0953-9     Document Type: Review

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