[A trend of molecular genetics on prion diseases and prion protein].

Article

[A trend of molecular genetics on prion diseases and prion protein].

Nihon rinsho. Japanese journal of clinical medicine - 1 Sept 1993

Muramatsu Y, Shinagawa M

Abstract excerpt

Infectious amyloid filaments designated as prion rods or scrapie associated fibrils (SAF) present in brain tissues affected by transmissible spongiform encephalopathies such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker disease (GSS) and kuru of humans, and scrapie of sheep....

Topics

Animals
Codon
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome
Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker Disease
Humans
Membrane Glycoproteins
Mutation
Prion Diseases
Prions
Sheep

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