Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease in pregnancy: the use of modified RT-QuIC to determine infectivity in placental tissues [PDF]
Collin Luk +6 more
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PrPCWD lymphoid cell targets in early and advanced chronic wasting disease of mule deer [PDF]
Up to 15% of free-ranging mule deer in northeastern Colorado and southeastern Wyoming, USA, are afflicted with a prion disease, or transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE), known as chronic wasting disease (CWD).
Barillas-Mury, C. +6 more
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Neurofilament light chain and tau concentrations are markedly increased in the serum of patients with sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, and tau correlates with rate of disease progression [PDF]
OBJECTIVES: A blood-based biomarker of neuronal damage in sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (sCJD) will be extremely valuable for both clinical practice and research aiming to develop effective therapies.
Collinge, J +6 more
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Objective To describe peripheral neuropathy associated with familial Creutzfeldt‐Jakob disease. Methods We report two unrelated patients with genetic Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease with demyelinating peripheral neuropathy as initial presentation, with a ...
Cécile Delorme +19 more
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Treating seizures in Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease
Seizures are known to occur in Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD). In the setting of a rapidly progressive condition with no effective therapy, determining appropriate treatment for seizures can be difficult if clinical morbidity is not obvious yet the ...
Marcus C. Ng +2 more
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Imaging and CSF analyses effectively distinguish CJD from its mimics [PDF]
OBJECTIVE: To review clinical and investigation findings in patients referred to a specialist prion clinic who were suspected to have sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (sCJD) and yet were found to have an alternative final diagnosis. METHODS: Review the
Collinge, J +4 more
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Background Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease is a neurodegenerative disorder that can present with neuropsychiatric features such as dementia; it is a rare cause of rapidly progressive dementia.
A. O. Idowu +6 more
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Different forms of the bovine PrP gene have five or six copies of a short, G-C-rich element within the protein-coding exon [PDF]
Current models of the virus-like agents of scrapie and bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) have to take into account that structural changes in a host-encoded protein (PrP protein) exhibit an effect on the time course of these diseases and the ...
Dawson, M +4 more
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Wariant Choroby Creutzfeldta-Jakoba: aktualny stan wiedzy
Choroby wywoływane przez priony obejmują: chorobę Creutzfeldta-Jakoba (Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, CJD), kuru, chorobę Gerstmanna-Sträusslera-Scheinkera (GSS), śmiertelną rodzinną bezsenność (fatal familial insomnia, FFI) u człowieka, scrapie (polska ...
James W. Ironside
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Pathologically confirmed autoimmune encephalitis in suspected Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease [PDF]
Objective: To determine the clinical features and presence in CSF of antineuronal antibodies in patients with pathologically proven autoimmune encephalitis derived from a cohort of patients with suspected Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD).
Beukelaar, J.W.K. (Janet) de +9 more
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