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Central and peripheral pathology of kuru: pathological analysis of a recent case and comparison with other forms of human prion disease

While the neuropathology of kuru is well defined, there are few data concerning the distribution of disease-related prion protein in peripheral tissues. Here we report the investigation of brain and peripheral tissues from a kuru patient who died in 2003. Neuropathological findings were compared wit...

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Autores principales: Brandner, Sebastian, Whitfield, Jerome, Boone, Ken, Puwa, Anderson, O'Malley, Catherine, Linehan, Jacqueline M., Joiner, Susan, Scaravilli, Francesco, Calder, Ian, Alpers, Michael P., Wadsworth, Jonathan D.F., Collinge, John
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2581659/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18849292
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2008.0091