Diversity of prion diseases: (No) strains attached?

Acta Neuropathologica

Volumn 121, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-4

  Brandner, Sebastian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SYNUCLEIN; AMYLOID PROTEIN; BETA SYNUCLEIN; PRION PROTEIN; TAU PROTEIN;

BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEMENTIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; FAMILIAL BRITISH DEMENTIA; FATAL FAMILIAL INSOMNIA; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC STRAIN; GERSTMANN STRAUSSLER SCHEINKER SYNDROME; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRION DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN DEFECT; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN MISFOLDING CYCLICAL AMPLIFICATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PROTEIN VARIANT; REVIEW; SCRAPIE; SPORADIC CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; VARIANT CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE;

ANIMALS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; PRION DISEASES; PRIONS; PRPSC PROTEINS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 78651243687     PISSN: 00016322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00401-010-0775-x     Document Type: Review

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