Prion Diseases of Humans and Animals: Their Causes and Molecular Basis
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- 1 March 2001
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Annual Reviews in Annual Review of Neuroscience
- Vol. 24 (1), 519-550
- https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.neuro.24.1.519
Abstract
▪ Abstract Prion diseases are transmissible neurodegenerative conditions that include Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) in humans and bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and scrapie in animals. Pr...Keywords
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