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ɑ-Synuclein strains and the variable pathologies of synucleinopathies.
Journal of neurochemistry - 1 Oct 2016
Peelaerts Wouter, Baekelandt Veerle
Abstract excerpt
Several decades ago, a mysterious transmissible agent was found responsible for a group of progressive and lethal encephalopathies affecting the nervous system of both animals and humans. This infectious agent showed a strain-encoded manner of inheritance even though it lacked nucleic acids. The identification of infectious proteins resolved this apparent conundrum. Misfolded infectious protein particles, or...
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