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Metallothioneins in Prion- and Amyloid-Related Diseases

Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, 2016
Prion and other amyloid-forming diseases represent a group of neurodegenerative disorders that affect both animals and humans. The role of metal ions, especially copper and zinc is studied intensively in connection with these diseases. Their involvement in protein misfolding and aggregation and their role in creation of reactive oxygen species have ...
Pavlína, Adam   +8 more
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Molecular and chemical basis of prion-related diseases

Chemical Society Reviews, 1997
Prion-related diseases include scrapie in sheep, bovine spongiform encephalopathy in cattle and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans. The infectious agent for these diseases surprisingly contains no nucleic acid, but is a protein(PrP) which exists in two conformations, PrPC and PrPSc.
Sheila B. L. Ng, Andrew J. Doig
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Epitope scanning indicates structural differences in brain-derived monomeric and aggregated mutant prion proteins related to genetic prion diseases [PDF]

open access: possibleBiochemical Journal, 2013
Genetic Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease, Gerstmann–Sträussler–Scheinker syndrome, fatal familial insomnia and prion protein cerebral amyloid angiopathy are clinically and neuropathologically distinct neurodegenerative diseases linked to mutations in the PRNP gene encoding the cellular prion protein (PrPC). How sequence variants of PRNP encode the information
Tapella, Laura   +5 more
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Amyloid in alzheimer's disease and prion-related encephalopathies: Studies with synthetic peptides

Progress in Neurobiology, 1996
Deposition of amyloid-beta protein (beta A) in brain parenchyma and vessel walls is a major pathological feature of Alzheimer's disease (AD). In prion-related encephalopathies (PRE), too, an altered form of prion protein (PrPsc) forms amyloid fibrils and accumulates in the brain.
G, Forloni   +3 more
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A Highly Sensitive Diagnostic Assay for Aggregate-Related Diseases, Including Prion Diseases and Alzheimer's Disease

Rejuvenation Research, 2008
Prion diseases, Alzheimer's disease, and Parkinson's disease are age-related neurodegenerative diseases that are characterized by the formation of protein aggregates during the progress of the disease. Although it is still not known whether these aggregates are causative for, or symptoms of, the disease.
Eva, Birkmann   +5 more
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