Insights into prion strains and neurotoxicity.

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Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) are neurodegenerative diseases that are caused by prions and affect humans and many animal species. It is now widely accepted that the infectious agent that causes TSEs is PrP(Sc), an aggregated moiety of the host-derived membrane glycolipoprotein PrP(C). Although PrP(C) is encoded by the host genome, prions themselves encipher many phenotypic TSE variants, known...

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