Molecular biology of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies
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- 24 June 1996
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Wiley in FEBS Letters
- Vol. 389 (1), 3-11
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0014-5793(96)00610-2
Abstract
The prion, the transmissible agent that causes spongiform encephalopathies such as scrapie, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and Creutzfeldt‐Jakob disease, is believed to be DAvoid of nucleic a...Keywords
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