Ultrastructural study of florid plaques in variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: A comparison with amyloid plaques in kuru, sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker disease

Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 46-59

  Sikorska, B ^a   Liberski, P P ^a   Sobow T ^a   Budka, H ^b   Ironside, J W ^c  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LODZ   (Poland)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amyloid; Gerstmann Str ussler Scheinker disease; Kuru; Plaque; Prion protein; Sporadic Creutzfeldt Jakob disease; Ultrastructure; Variant Creutzfeldt Jakob disease

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID; PARAFFIN;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; GERSTMANN STRAUSSLER SCHEINKER SYNDROME; HUMAN; IMAGING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; KURU; LYSOSOME; MICROGLIA; NEURITE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYLOID; BRAIN; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB SYNDROME; ENDOSOMES; FEMALE; GERSTMANN-STRAUSSLER-SCHEINKER DISEASE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GLIOSIS; HUMANS; KURU; MALE; MICROGLIA; NEURONS; SENILE PLAQUES; TAU PROTEINS; UBIQUITIN;

EID: 58849140480     PISSN: 03051846     EISSN: 13652990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2990.2008.00959.x     Document Type: Article

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