Familial spongiform encephalopathy associated with a novel prion protein gene mutation

Annals of Neurology

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 138-146

  Nitrini, Ricardo ^a,e   Rosemberg, Sergio ^a   Passos Bueno, Maria Rita ^a   Teixeira Da Silva, Luís S ^b   Iughetti, Paula ^a   Papadopoulos, Maria ^c   Carrilho, Paulo M ^a   Caramelli, Paulo ^a   Albrecht, Steffen ^d   Zatz, Mayana ^a   LeBlanc, Andrea ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF LONDRINA   (Brazil)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; PRION PROTEIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN BIOPSY; BRAIN SPONGIOSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; GENE MUTATION; GERSTMANN STRAUSSLER SCHEINKER SYNDROME; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KURU; MALE; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN;

ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BRAIN; BRAZIL; DNA PRIMERS; EXONS; FEMALE; GENES, DOMINANT; GERSTMANN-STRAUSSLER-SCHEINKER DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; PEDIGREE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRION DISEASES; PRIONS;

EID: 15644366144     PISSN: 03645134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ana.410420203     Document Type: Article

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