Prions and platelets: a possible role for cellular prion protein
Cellular prion protein (PrPc) is a GPI–anchored protein, of unknown function, found in a number of cells throughout the body. It is now widely believed that a mis-folded, protease resistant form of this protein is responsible for a group of fatal neurodegenerative diseases called transmissible spong...
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1993/114 |