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[Prion disease--the characteristics and diagnostic points in Japan].
Rinsho shinkeigaku = Clinical neurology - 1 May 2010
Sanjo Nobuo, Mizusawa Hidehiro
Abstract excerpt
Prion disease develops when normal prion proteins change into transmissible abnormal prion proteins and the converted proteins accumulate in the brain. The Japanese Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) Surveillance Committee has identified 1320 patients with prion diseases in the 10 years since 1999 (...
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