摘要
Despite intensive research,most neurodegenerative diseases cannot be cured and for some of them no treatment is available to increase survival or quality of life.Among the latter are prion diseases,fatal and transmissible neurodegenerative diseases of humans and other animals.
Despite intensive research,most neurodegenerative diseases cannot be cured and for some of them no treatment is available to increase survival or quality of life.Among the latter are prion diseases,fatal and transmissible neurodegenerative diseases of humans and other animals.
基金
funded by grants from the Alberta Prion Research Institute
the Alzheimer Society of Alberta and Northwest Territories
the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council(NSERC)of Canada
supported by the Canada Research Chair program
a postdoctoral fellowship from the German Research Foundation(DFG)
