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Correlation of polydispersed prion protein and characteristic pathology in the thalamus in variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: implication of small oligomeric species.
Brain pathology (Zurich, Switzerland) - 1 May 2011
Choi Young Pyo, Gröner Albrecht, Ironside James W, Head Mark W
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The vacuolation, neuronal loss and gliosis that characterize human prion disease pathology are accompanied by the accumulation of an aggregated, insoluble and protease-resistant form (termed PrP(Sc)) of the host-encoded normal cellular prion protein (PrP(C)). In variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease...
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