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Genetic characterization of the prion protein gene in camels (Camelus) with comments on the evolutionary history of prion disease in Cetartiodactyla. [PDF]
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Biochimica Et Biophysica Acta - Molecular Basis of Disease, 2007 The recognition that variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (vCJD) is caused by the same prion strain as bovine spongiform encephalopathy in cattle has dramatically highlighted the need for a precise understanding of the molecular biology of human prion ...
Jonathan D F Wadsworth, John Collinge
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Neurologic Clinics, 2018
Prions diseases are uniformly fatal neurodegenerative diseases that occur in sporadic, genetic, and acquired forms. Acquired prion diseases, caused by infectious transmission, are least common. Most prion diseases are not infectious, but occur spontaneously through misfolding of normal prion proteins or genetic mutations in the prion protein gene ...
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Prions diseases are uniformly fatal neurodegenerative diseases that occur in sporadic, genetic, and acquired forms. Acquired prion diseases, caused by infectious transmission, are least common. Most prion diseases are not infectious, but occur spontaneously through misfolding of normal prion proteins or genetic mutations in the prion protein gene ...
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Current Biology, 1992
There have been remarkably rapid advances in the understanding of prion diseases over the past year. The controversial notion that the transmissible agent may be an abnormal isoform of a host-encoded protein, the prion protein, is now gaining wide acceptance.
J, Collinge, M S, Palmer
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There have been remarkably rapid advances in the understanding of prion diseases over the past year. The controversial notion that the transmissible agent may be an abnormal isoform of a host-encoded protein, the prion protein, is now gaining wide acceptance.
J, Collinge, M S, Palmer
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Prion Diseases and Emerging Prion Diseases
Current Medicinal Chemistry, 2008Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), also called prion diseases, are fatal neurodegenerative disorders. An abnormal isoform of the prion protein (PrP(Sc)) generated by post-translational modification of the cellular prion protein (PrP(C)) is believed to be the main component of this infectious agent.
Takashi, Yokoyama, Shirou, Mohri
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Clinical pediatrics, 1997
Prion diseases are a group of disorders sharing clinical and pathological features. Many of the enigmas of these diseases have now yielded to the concerted effort to understand them and their unusual pathogenesis. The genetic backgrounds of the various diseases are being clarified at an impressive rate, but the cause of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob ...
Shetty, Avinash K., Steele, Russell W.
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Prion diseases are a group of disorders sharing clinical and pathological features. Many of the enigmas of these diseases have now yielded to the concerted effort to understand them and their unusual pathogenesis. The genetic backgrounds of the various diseases are being clarified at an impressive rate, but the cause of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob ...
Shetty, Avinash K., Steele, Russell W.
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Journal of Neurovirology, 2003
Prion diseases are incurable neurodegenerative conditions affecting both animals and humans. They may be sporadic, infectious, or inherited in origin. Human prion diseases include Creutzfeldt-Jakob desease (CJD), Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker disease, kuru, and fatal familial insomnia.
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Prion diseases are incurable neurodegenerative conditions affecting both animals and humans. They may be sporadic, infectious, or inherited in origin. Human prion diseases include Creutzfeldt-Jakob desease (CJD), Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker disease, kuru, and fatal familial insomnia.
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Haemophilia, 1998
Summary. Although the nature of the infectious agent causing prion diseases is still debated, several of its molecular characteristics have been clarified in remarkable detail. The transmissibility of bovine spongiform encephalopathy to humans dramatically highlights the need for research focused at interference with prion replication and spread, and ...
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Summary. Although the nature of the infectious agent causing prion diseases is still debated, several of its molecular characteristics have been clarified in remarkable detail. The transmissibility of bovine spongiform encephalopathy to humans dramatically highlights the need for research focused at interference with prion replication and spread, and ...
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Seminars in Neurology, 2019
AbstractPrion diseases are a phenotypically diverse set of disorders characterized by protease-resistant abnormally shaped proteins known as prions. There are three main groups of prion diseases, termed sporadic (Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease [CJD], sporadic fatal insomnia, and variably protease-sensitive prionopathy), genetic (genetic CJD, fatal familial ...
Kelly J, Baldwin, Cynthia M, Correll
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AbstractPrion diseases are a phenotypically diverse set of disorders characterized by protease-resistant abnormally shaped proteins known as prions. There are three main groups of prion diseases, termed sporadic (Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease [CJD], sporadic fatal insomnia, and variably protease-sensitive prionopathy), genetic (genetic CJD, fatal familial ...
Kelly J, Baldwin, Cynthia M, Correll
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