Article
Human prion diseases.
Current opinion in neurology and neurosurgery - 1 Dec 1992
Palmer M S, Collinge J
Abstract excerpt
The past year has seen considerable advances in our understanding of the prion diseases, and there is increasing acceptance that the transmissible agent in these diseases may be an abnormal isoform of a normal host encoded protein. Molecular genetic studies have led to a new appreciation of the p...
Topics
- Animals
- Brain
- Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome
- Humans
- Iatrogenic Disease
- Mice
- Mice, Transgenic
- Mutation
- Phenotype
- Prion Diseases
- Prions