Autophagy contributes to widespread neuronal degeneration in hamsters infected with the echigo-1 strain of creutzfeldt-jakob disease and mice infected with the fujisaki strain of gerstmann-sträussler-scheinker (GSS) syndrome

Ultrastructural Pathology

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 31-36

  Liberski, Paweł P ^a   Sikorska, Beata ^a   Gibson, Peter ^c   Brown, Paul ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LODZ   (Poland)

^b DIF   (France)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Creutzfeldt Jakob disease; Echigo 1; Electron microscopy; Fujisaki 1; Gerstmann Str ussler Scheinker disease; Prion diseases; Spongiform vacuoles

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUTOPHAGY; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; DISEASE MODEL; GERSTMANN STRAUSSLER SCHEINKER SYNDROME; HAMSTER; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NERVE DEGENERATION; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; AUTOPHAGY; CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB SYNDROME; CRICETINAE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GERSTMANN-STRAUSSLER-SCHEINKER DISEASE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEURONS;

CRICETINAE; MUS;

EID: 79251581863     PISSN: 01913123     EISSN: 15210758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/01913123.2010.527038     Document Type: Article

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