A patient with MV2 subtype of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and atypical clinical presentation

Clinical Neuropathology

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 408-413

  Guerrero, D ^a   Martinez Velilla, N ^b   Caballero, M C ^a,c   Mendioroz M T ^b   Tunon T ^a,b,c   Masdeu, J ^d   Rodriguez A ^e   Armstrong, J ^e   Ferrer, I ^e  

^a Biomedical Research Center Neurological Tissue Bank of Navarra   (Spain)

^b Universidad Pública de Navarra   (Spain)

^c CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN BIOMÉDICA EN RED SOBRE ENFERMEDADES NEURODEGENERATIVAS CIBERNED   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

^e HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI DE BELLVITGE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Ataxia; Case report; Prion proteins; Sporadic Creutzfeldt Jakob disease; Western blot

Indexed keywords

METHIONINE; PRION PROTEIN; VALINE;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; APRAXIA; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; AUTOPSY; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN SPONGIOSIS; BRAIN STEM; BRAIN TISSUE; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLUM; CLINICAL FEATURE; CODON; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; DEATH; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HETEROZYGOSITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MEMORY DISORDER; NEOCORTEX; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPTIC SHOCK; SPEECH DISORDER; WESTERN BLOTTING;

EID: 57149087880     PISSN: 07225091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5414/npp27408     Document Type: Article

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