Cell biology. A unifying role for prions in neurodegenerative diseases.
PubMedPublished 22 June 2012Open access
Stanley B. Prusiner
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There has been renewed interest in the possibility that the proteins causing neurodegeneration are all prions, which would profoundly influence the development of diagnostics and effective therapies.
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A profound change in thinking about the etiologies of many neurodegenerative diseases has far-reaching implications for developing therapeutics.
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