Re: Fore/kuru

Jessica Maloney (23jess@UCLINK.BERKELEY.EDU)
Mon, 21 Feb 1994 16:05:22 -0800

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>BIOSIS / Search: Find SUBJECT PRION
>Result: 534 citations (type HELP LARGE RESULT for information)
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>seems like a ligitimate feild of study...
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>BIOSIS / Search: Find SUBJECT PRION and SUBJECT KURU
>Result: 48 citations
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>and its seems that kuru & prions go together.
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>BIOSIS / Search: Find SUBJECT KURU FORE
>Result: 2 citations
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>1) Glasse, R, et al. "Fieldwork in the south fore the process of ethnographic
> inquiry." [BA/RRM] p.77-91. IN: Prusiner, S. B., Et Al. (Ed.). Ellis
> Horwood Series In Neuroscience: Prion Diseases Of Humans And Animals;
> International Meeting, London, England, Uk, September 2-4, 1991.
> Xxvi+583p. Ellis Horwood Ltd.: Chichester, England, Uk. 1992
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>but it doesn't seem like anyone cares about the Fore.
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>I think I stop now. You didn't really want any of this. HI!
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