Doenças por Prions

Authors

  • Abelardo de Queiroz Campos Araujo Professor Adjunto de Neurologia - UFRJ; Neurovirologista do Hospital Evandro Chagas - Flocruz;
  • André Luiz dos Anjos de Oliveira Bolsista PIBIC/CNPq do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz — Fiocruz

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.34024/rnc.1998.v6.8979

Keywords:

Spongiform encephalopathies, Creutzfeidt-Jakob disease, prions, amyloidosis, dementias

Abstract

Prion (auto-replicative proteins lacking nucleic acids) diseases are a group of chronic, progressive and fatal diseases, caused by,an unconventional transmissible agent. These conditions, unlike others, can be sporadic, transmissible and inherited. The major human diseases caused by Prions are Kuru, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and its variants, Gerstmann-StrausslerScheinker disease, and fatal familial insomnia. In this paper we review the most recent ethlopathogenic, anatomopathologic, clinical and therapeutic aspects of these important neurodegenerative diseases.

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Published

1998-10-31

Issue

Vol. 6 No. 1 (1998)

Section

Revisão de Literatura

How to Cite

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Araujo A de QC, Oliveira AL dos A de. Doenças por Prions. Rev Neurocienc [Internet]. 1998 Oct. 31 [cited 2025 Dec. 13];6(1):33-46. Available from: https://periodicos.unifesp.br/index.php/neurociencias/article/view/8979