Altered Prion protein expression pattern in CSF as a biomarker for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is the most frequent human Prion-related disorder (PrD). The detection of 14-3-3 protein in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) is used as a molecular diagnostic criterion for patients clinically compatible with CJD. However, there is a pressing need for the identification...

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Main Authors: Mauricio Torres, Luis Cartier, José Manuel Matamala, Nancy Hernández, Ute Woehlbier, Claudio Hetz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3338608?pdf=render