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Washington University Experience | PRION DISEASES | Prion Diseases | 3B1 CJD (Case 3) H&E whole mount

3B1-3 Sections of basal ganglia show spongiform changes in deep gray nuclei characterized by homogeneously distributed small vacuoles, which vary in size and strongly involve the neuropil. There is also neuronal loss accompanied by astrocytosis

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