Highly infectious prions are not directly neurotoxic
Highly infectious prions are not directly neurotoxic
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United States: National Academy of Sciences
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English
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United States: National Academy of Sciences
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Prions are infectious agents which cause rapidly lethal neurodegenerative diseases in humans and animals following long, clinically silent incubation periods. They are composed of multichain assemblies of misfolded cellular prion protein. While it has long been assumed that prions are themselves neurotoxic, recent development of methods to obtain e...
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Highly infectious prions are not directly neurotoxic
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TN_cdi_pubmedcentral_primary_oai_pubmedcentral_nih_gov_7525444
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_pubmedcentral_primary_oai_pubmedcentral_nih_gov_7525444
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0027-8424
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1091-6490
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10.1073/pnas.2007406117
