The seeds of neurodegeneration: Prion-like spreading in ALS

Cell

Volumn 147, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 498-508

  Polymenidou, Magdalini ^a   Cleveland, Don W ^a  

^a LUDWIG INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOPROTEIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; PRION PROTEIN;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; DIFFUSE LEWY BODY DISEASE; FATAL FAMILIAL INSOMNIA; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; GLIA; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; NERVE DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRION DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; SPINOCEREBELLAR DEGENERATION; WILD TYPE;

EID: 80155157847     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: 10974172     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2011.10.011     Document Type: Review

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