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Neuroinvasion in Prion Diseases: The Roles of Ascending Neural Infection and Blood Dissemination
1 Jan 2010
Abstract excerpt
Prion disorders are infectious, neurodegenerative diseases that affect humans and animals. Susceptibility to some prion diseases such as kuru or the new variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans and scrapie in sheep and goats is influenced by polymorphisms of the coding region of the prion protein gene, while other prion disorders such as fatal familial insomnia, familial Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, or...
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