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Highly infectious prions are not directly neurotoxic

Prions are infectious agents which cause rapidly lethal neurodegenerative diseases in humans and animals following long, clinically silent incubation periods. They are composed of multichain assemblies of misfolded cellular prion protein. While it has long been assumed that prions are themselves neu...

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Autores principales: Benilova, Iryna, Reilly, Madeleine, Terry, Cassandra, Wenborn, Adam, Schmidt, Christian, Marinho, Aline T., Risse, Emmanuel, Al-Doujaily, Huda, Wiggins De Oliveira, Michael, Sandberg, Malin K., Wadsworth, Jonathan D. F., Jat, Parmjit S., Collinge, John
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: National Academy of Sciences 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7525444/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32900920
http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2007406117