Article
Transthyretin amyloidoses of familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy as a paradigm for the genetic control of spontaneous generation of infectious amyloids by patterned configurational change in host precursors in Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease.
Acta medica portuguesa - 1 Dec 1991
Gajdusek D C
Abstract excerpt
Transthyretin amyloidosis. Infectious amyloid proteins. Unconventional slow virus diseases. Spongiform encephalopathies. Genetic control and point mutations.
Topics
- Amyloidosis
- Animals
- Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome
- Humans
- Mutation
- Nervous System Diseases