Prion protein heterogeneity in sporadic but not variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: U.K. cases 1991-2002

Annals of Neurology

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 851-859

  Head, Mark W ^a,b   Bunn, Tristan J R ^a   Bishop, Matthew T ^a   McLoughlin, Victoria ^a   Lowrie, Suzanne ^a   McKimmie, Clive S ^a   Williams, Michelle C ^a   McCardle, Linda ^a   MacKenzie, Jan ^a   Knight, Richard ^a   Will, Robert G ^a   Ironside, James W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b WESTERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE DEGENERATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BRAIN; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB SYNDROME; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GLYCOSYLATION; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; PRPSC PROTEINS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 2542618458     PISSN: 03645134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ana.20127     Document Type: Article

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