Potent inhibition of scrapie prion replication in cultured cells by bis-acridines.

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Published in Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A on March 07, 2003

Authors

Barnaby C H May1, Aaron T Fafarman, Septima B Hong, Michael Rogers, Leslie W Deady, Stanley B Prusiner, Fred E Cohen

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA.

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