NR AJSD
AU Prusiner,S.B.
TI Prions causing degenerative neurological diseases
QU Annual Review of Medicine 1987; 38: 381-98
PT journal article; review
AB Prions cause degenerative neurological diseases - scrapie in animals and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans. The novel properties and structure of the prion distinguish it from viruses.
ZR 95
MH Alzheimer Disease/etiology; Animal; Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome/*etiology; Hamsters; Human; Mice; *Prions/analysis/genetics/isolation & purification; Scrapie/*etiology; Support, Non-U.S. Gov't; Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.
AD Department of Neurology and Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco 94143, California
SP englisch
PO USA