Cortical malformations are associated with a rare polymorphism of cellular prion protein

Neurology

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 557-560

  Walz, R ^a,b,c,f   Castro, R M R P S ^d   Landemberger, M C ^d   Velasco, T R ^a   Terra Bustamante, V C ^a   Bastos, A C ^b   Bianchin, M ^a   Wichert Ana, L ^a   Araujo D ^a   Alexandre Jr , V ^a   Santos, A C ^a   Machado, H R ^a   Carlotti Jr , C G ^a   Brentani, R R ^d,e   Martins, V R ^d,e   Sakamoto, A C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Hospital Governador Celso Ramos   (Mexico)

^c Univ do Vale to Itajai (UNIVALI)   (Mexico)

^d Ctro Trat Pesquisa Hosp do Cancer   (Brazil)

^e LUDWIG INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH   (Brazil)

^f HOSPITAL GOVERNADOR CELSO RAMOS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARAGINE; PRION PROTEIN; SERINE;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN MALFORMATION; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; PELIZAEUS MERZBACHER DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRNP GENE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; RARE DISEASE; SEIZURE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TEMPORAL LOBE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

EID: 3543054070     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.WNL.0000133400.34423.AD     Document Type: Article

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