Preclinical deposition of pathological prion protein in muscle of experimentally infected primates.

Prion diseases are transmissible fatal neurodegenerative disorders affecting humans and animals. A central step in disease progression is the accumulation of a misfolded form (PrP(Sc)) of the host encoded prion protein (PrP(C)) in neuronal and non-neuronal tissues. The involvement of peripheral tiss...

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Main Authors: Susanne Krasemann, Melanie Neumann, Markus Geissen, Walter Bodemer, Franz-Josef Kaup, Walter Schulz-Schaeffer, Nathalie Morel, Adriano Aguzzi, Markus Glatzel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2978702?pdf=render