Styryl-based and tricyclic compounds as potential anti-prion agents.

Prion diseases currently have no effective therapy. These illnesses affect both animal and human populations, and are characterized by the conformational change of a normal self protein PrP(C) (C for cellular) to a pathological and infectious conformer, PrP(Sc) (Sc for scrapie). We used a well chara...

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Hoofdauteurs: Erika Chung, Frances Prelli, Stephen Dealler, Woo Sirl Lee, Young-Tae Chang, Thomas Wisniewski
Formaat: Artikel
Taal:English
Gepubliceerd in: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Reeks:PLoS ONE
Online toegang:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3172287?pdf=render