A refined method for molecular typing reveals that co-occurrence of PrPSc types in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is not the rule

Laboratory Investigation

Volumn 87, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1103-1112

  Notari, Silvio ^a   Capellari, Sabina ^a   Langeveld, Jan ^b   Giese, Armin ^c   Strammiello, Rosaria ^a   Gambetti, Pierluigi ^d   Kretzschmar, Hans A ^c   Parchi, Piero ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification; Prion; Strain; Typing; Western blotting

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; PRION PROTEIN; PROTEINASE K;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ENZYMATIC DEGRADATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MOLECULAR TYPING; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ELECTROPHORESIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; BRAIN; CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB SYNDROME; ENDOPEPTIDASE K; HUMANS; IMMUNOASSAY; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PRPSC PROTEINS;

EID: 35348941241     PISSN: 00236837     EISSN: 15300307     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/labinvest.3700676     Document Type: Article

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