Cargando…
Ultraviolet-ozone treatment reduces levels of disease-associated prion protein and prion infectivity
BACKGROUND: Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) are a group of fatal neurodegenerative diseases caused by novel infectious agents referred to as prions. Prions appear to be composed primarily, if not exclusively, of a misfolded isoform of the cellular prion protein. TSE infectivity is r...
Autores principales: | , , , , |
---|---|
Formato: | Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
Publicado: |
BioMed Central
2009
|
Materias: | |
Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2714315/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19580672 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-2-121 |