Expanding the Prion Paradigm to Include Alzheimer and Parkinson Diseases
This Viewpoint describes the evidence for iatrogenic disease based on amyloid-β prions and the possibility that Alzheimer disease has an iatrogenic form wherein amyloid β and tau behave as prions that transmit the disease.
Authors
- David Westaway (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1928-4616)
- Stanley B. Prusiner (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1955-5498)
- Carlo Condello (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8454-5360)
Institutions
- University of California, San Francisco (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- JAMA Neurology
- Published
- 2024-08-19
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jamaneurol.2024.2464
- Citations
- 14
- Primary Topic
- Prion Diseases and Protein Misfolding
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 3.27