we tested purified preparations of brain tissue from 39 patients with creutzfeldt-jakob disease , gerstmann-straussler-scheinker syndrome , or kuru , and from 32 patients with a variety of nonspongiform degenerative diseases , with the use of western blots against an antiserum to a similarly purified fraction made from scrapie-infected hamster brain .
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gerstmann-straussler-scheinker syndrome
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brain