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Review: Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: prion protein type, disease phenotype and agent strain.
Neuropathology and applied neurobiology - 1 Jun 2012
Head M W, Ironside J W
Abstract excerpt
The human transmissible spongiform encephalopathies or human prion diseases are one of the most intensively investigated groups of rare human neurodegenerative conditions. They are generally held to be unique in terms of their complex epidemiology and phenotypic variability, but they may also serve as a paradigm with which other more common protein misfolding disorders might be compared and contrasted. The...
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