Publications
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| genetic studies in relation to kuru: an overview. | kuru is a subacute neurodegenerative disease presenting with limb ataxia, dysarthria, and a shivering tremor. the disease progress to complete motor and mental incapacity and death within 6 to 24 months. neuropathologically, a typical pattern of neuronal loss, astrocytic and microglial proliferation, characteristic "kuru-type" amyloid plaques, and prp deposits in the cerebral cortex and cerebellum are observed. kuru is the prototype of a group of human transmissible spongiform encephalopathies ( ... | 2004 | 15354868 |