Prion protein with an insertional mutation accumulates on axonal and dendritic plasmalemma and is associated with distinctive ultrastructural changes.

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Prion diseases are fatal neurological diseases characterized by central nervous system deposition of abnormal forms of a membrane glycoprotein designated PrP (prion protein). Tg(PG14) transgenic mice express PrP that harbor a nine-octapeptide insertional mutation homologous to one described in a familial prion disease of humans. Tg(PG14) mice spontaneously develop a fatal neurological illness accompanied by...

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