Kuru: Its ramifications after fifty years

Experimental Gerontology

Volumn 44, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 63-69

  Liberski, P P ^a   Brown, P ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LODZ   (Poland)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Amyloid plaques; Creutzfeldt Jakob disease; Kuru; Prions; Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CANNIBALISM; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; GERSTMANN STRAUSSLER SCHEINKER SYNDROME; HUMAN; KURU; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING;

ANIMALS; CANNIBALISM; CATTLE; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; KURU; MALE; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PRION DISEASES; PRIONS; PRPSC PROTEINS; RESEARCH;

BOVINAE;

EID: 57349104683     PISSN: 05315565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exger.2008.05.010     Document Type: Article

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