Open AccessPersonal reflections on the neuropathology of kuru
Author(s) -
Byron A. Kakulas
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
philosophical transactions of the royal society b biological sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.753
H-Index - 272
eISSN - 1471-2970
pISSN - 0962-8436
DOI - 10.1098/rstb.2008.4014
Subject(s) - kuru , neuropathology , neuroscience , biology , scrapie , medicine , disease , pathology , prion protein
My involvement with kuru began towards the end of 1963 while I was a Fellow at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). During the autumn of that year I was contacted by Dr Michael Alpers, who was on his way to Boston from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland with a carload
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