The first case of fatal familial insomnia (FFI) in the Netherlands: a patient from Egyptian descent with concurrent four repeat tau deposits

Neuropathol Appl Neurobiol. 2011 Aug;37(5):549-53. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2990.2010.01126.x.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Letter
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Black People
  • Blotting, Western
  • Brain / pathology*
  • Egypt
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Immunohistochemistry
  • Insomnia, Fatal Familial / genetics*
  • Insomnia, Fatal Familial / pathology*
  • Insomnia, Fatal Familial / physiopathology*
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Netherlands
  • Pedigree
  • Point Mutation
  • Prion Proteins
  • Prions / genetics*

Substances

  • PRNP protein, human
  • Prion Proteins
  • Prions