The acute inflammatory response in CNS following injection of prion brain homogenate or normal brain homogenate
- 4 January 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology
- Vol. 25 (1) , 19-27
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2990.1999.00153.x
Abstract
The neuropathological hallmarks of end‐stage prion disease are vacuolation, neuronal loss, astrocytosis and deposition of PrPSc amyloid. We have also shown that there is an inflammatory response in t...Keywords
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