| Literature DB >> 12578942 |
C Ishida1, A Kakishima, S Okino, Y Furukawa, M Kano, Y Oda, I Nakanishi, T Makifuchi, T Kitamoto, M Yamada.
Abstract
The authors report a 75-year-old woman with atypical sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) characterized by MM1-type prion protein (PrP) (methionine homozygosity at codon 129 in the PrP gene and type-1 protease-resistant PrP) and PrP plaques. This patient is the first case of sporadic CJD with plaque-forming MM1-type PrP, suggesting either a shared prion strain with the plaque-forming subset of dural graft-associated CJD or shared host genetic factors that are unrelated to the PrP genotype.Entities:
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Year: 2003 PMID: 12578942 DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000044403.41041.a4
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Neurology ISSN: 0028-3878 Impact factor: 9.910