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Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2022 Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a naturally-occurring neurodegenerative disease of cervids. Raccoons (Procyon lotor) and meadow voles (Microtus pennsylvanicus) have previously been shown to be susceptible to the CWD agent.
S. Jo Moore +4 more
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Chronic Wasting Disease Prions in Elk Antler Velvet
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2009 Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a contagious, fatal prion disease of deer and elk that continues to emerge in new locations. To explore the means by which prions are transmitted with high efficiency among cervids, we examined prion infectivity in the ...
Rachel C. Angers +8 more
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Cells, 2022 Recent findings of diverse populations of prion-like conformers of misfolded tau protein expand the prion concept to Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and monogenic frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD)-MAPT P301L, and suggest that distinct strains of misfolded proteins drive the phenotypes and progression rates in many neurodegenerative diseases.
Lenka Hromadkova +3 more
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Glycosylphosphatidylinositols: More than just an anchor? [PDF]
, 2016 There is increasing interest in the role of glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI) anchors that attach some proteins to cell membranes. Far from being biologically inert, GPIs influence the targeting, intracellular trafficking and function of the attached ...
Bate, C, Nolan, W, Williams, A
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A Case–Control Study on the Origin of Atypical Scrapie in Sheep, France
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2009 A matched case–control study (95 cases and 220 controls) was designed to study risk factors for atypical scrapie in sheep in France. We analyzed contacts with animals from other flocks, lambing and feeding practices, and exposure to toxic substances ...
Alexandre Fediaevsky +3 more
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On the statistical mechanics of prion diseases
, 2001 We simulate a two-dimensional, lattice based, protein-level statistical mechanical model for prion diseases (e.g., Mad Cow disease) with concommitant prion protein misfolding and aggregation.
A. Coghlan +25 more
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Without magic bullets: the biological basis for public health interventions against protein folding disorders [PDF]
, 2010 Protein folding disorders of aging like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases currently present intractable medical challenges. 'Small molecule' interventions - drug treatments - often have, at best, palliative impact, failing to alter
Rodrick Wallace
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Molecular Dynamics Studies on the Buffalo Prion Protein [PDF]
, 2015 It was reported that buffalo is a low susceptibility species resisting to prion diseases, which are invariably fatal and highly infectious neurodegenerative diseases that affect a wide variety of species.
Chatterjee, Subhojyoti +2 more
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Disease-related Prion Protein Forms Aggresomes in Neuronal Cells Leading to Caspase Activation and Apoptosis [PDF]
Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2005 The molecular basis for neuronal death in prion disease is not established, but putative pathogenic roles for both disease-related prion protein (PrP(Sc)) and accumulated cytosolic PrP(C) have been proposed. Here we report that only prion-infected neuronal cells become apoptotic after mild inhibition of the proteasome, and this is strictly dependent ...
Mark, Kristiansen +6 more
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SPG4 and Dementia: Expanding the Clinical Spectrum
Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective Hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP) is a group of disorders characterized by progressive spasticity and lower limb weakness, with mutations in SPG4/SPAST being the most common cause. Detailed studies and clinical and molecular comparisons across different populations are missing.
Emanuele Panza +19 more
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