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Fishing for Prion Protein Function

The prion protein is infamous for its role in devastating neurological diseases, but its normal, physiological function has remained mysterious. A new study uses the experimentally tractable zebrafish model to obtain fresh clues to this puzzle.

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Autores principales: Chiesa, Roberto, Harris, David A
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2661967/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19338390
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1000075
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spelling pubmed-26619672009-03-31 Fishing for Prion Protein Function Chiesa, Roberto Harris, David A PLoS Biol Primer The prion protein is infamous for its role in devastating neurological diseases, but its normal, physiological function has remained mysterious. A new study uses the experimentally tractable zebrafish model to obtain fresh clues to this puzzle. Public Library of Science 2009-03 2009-03-31 /pmc/articles/PMC2661967/ /pubmed/19338390 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1000075 Text en © 2009 Chiesa and Harris. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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