Defining the Conformational Features of Anchorless, Poorly Neuroinvasive Prions

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Bett, Cyrus ^a   Kurt, Tim D ^a   Lucero, Melanie ^a   Trejo, Margarita ^a   Rozemuller, Annemieke J ^b   Kong, Qingzhong ^c   Nilsson, K Peter R ^d   Masliah, Eliezer ^a   Oldstone, Michael B ^e   Sigurdson, Christina J ^a,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FIBER; HEART; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MIDDLE AGED; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOLS; PLAQUE, AMYLOID; PRION DISEASES; PRIONS; PRPSC PROTEINS;

MUS;

EID: 84876870665     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1003280     Document Type: Article

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