When amyloids become prions

Prion

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 233-239

  Sabate, Raimon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Amyloid; Amyloid cytotoxicity; Amyloid transmission; Creutzfeldt Jakob disease; Prion; Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID; AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; PRION PROTEIN; PRION;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYLOIDOSIS; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; CYTOTOXICITY; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; NEUROTOXICITY; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NONHUMAN; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRION DISEASE; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; REVIEW; ANIMAL; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METABOLISM; MOUSE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRION; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYLOID; ANIMALS; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB SYNDROME; HUMANS; MICE; PRIONS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY;

EID: 84919708564     PISSN: 19336896     EISSN: 1933690X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/19336896.2014.968464     Document Type: Review

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