Article
Two different clinical phenotypes of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease with a M232R substitution.
Journal of neurology - 1 Nov 2007
Shiga Yusei, Satoh Katsuya, Kitamoto Tetsuyuki, Kanno Sigenori, Nakashima Ichiro, Sato Shigeru, Fujihara Kazuo, Takata Hiroshi, Nobukuni Keigo, Kuroda Shigetoshi, Takano Hiroki, Umeda Yoshitaka, Konno Hidehiko, Nagasato Kunihiko, Satoh Akira, Matsuda Yoshito, Hidaka Mitsuru, Takahashi Hirokatsu, Sano Yasuteru, Kim Kang, Konishi Takashi, Doh-ura Katsumi, Sato Takeshi, Sasaki Kensuke, Nakamura Yoshikazu, Yamada Masahito, Mizusawa Hidehiro, Itoyama Yasuo
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: To describe the clinical features of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease with a substitution of arginine for methionine (M232R substitution) at codon 232 (CJD232) of the prion protein gene (PRNP). PATIENTS AND METHODS: We evaluated the clinical and laboratory features of 20 CJD232 patients: age of onset, initial symptoms, duration until becoming akinetic and mute, duration until occurrence of periodic sharp and...
Topics
- 14-3-3 Proteins
- Aged
- Arginine
- Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome
- Electroencephalography
- Female
- Humans
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging
