Transthyretin amyloidoses of familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy as a paradigm for the genetic control of spontaneous generation of infectious amyloids by patterned configurational change in host precursors in Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease.
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Transthyretin amyloidosis. Infectious amyloid proteins. Unconventional slow virus diseases. Spongiform encephalopathies. Genetic control and point mutations.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Acta medica portuguesa
دوره 4 Suppl 1 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1991