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Development of a sensitive cell culture system to assess prion infectivity and the efficacy of prion decontamination technologies

, 2012
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) can be iatrogenically transmitted during transplants, grafts and transfusions from CJD infected donors and also contaminated surgical instruments.
Secker, Thomas
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Diagnosis of Methionine/Valine Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease by Protein Misfolding Cyclic Amplification

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2018
A patient with a heterozygous variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) with a methionine/valine genotype at codon 129 of the prion protein gene was recently reported.
Daisy Bougard, Maxime Bélondrade, Charly Mayran, Lilian Bruyère-Ostells, Sylvain Lehmann, Chantal Fournier-Wirth, Richard S. Knight, Robert G. Will, Alison J.E. Green   +8 more
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Cellulose ether treatment inhibits amyloid beta aggregation, neuroinflammation and cognitive deficits in transgenic mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease

Journal of Neuroinflammation, 2023
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is an incurable, progressive and devastating neurodegenerative disease. Pathogenesis of AD is associated with the aggregation and accumulation of amyloid beta (Aβ), a major neurotoxic mediator that triggers neuroinflammation and ...
Tahir Ali, Antonia N. Klein, Keegan McDonald, Lovisa Johansson, Priyanka Ganguli Mukherjee, Martin Hallbeck, Katsumi Doh-ura, Hermann M. Schatzl, Sabine Gilch   +8 more
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Prion‐Like Protein LENG8‐Mediated Nucleation Drives Stress Granule Assembly

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
LENG8 is a newly identified stress granule (SG) nucleator required for SG assembly. Following stress, nuclear LENG8 granules disassemble, allowing LENG8 to translocate into the cytoplasm and form independent nucleation foci. These foci fuse with canonical early G3BP1/TIA1 seeds via LENG8‐TIA1 binding to drive SG maturation.
Mingxing Zhang, Xin Wang, Yilan Teng, Zhicheng Wu, Jing Fan, Hongwen Zhu, Peng Dai   +6 more
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Emerging and emerging common diseases in Iraq [PDF]

Iraqi Journal of Veterinary Sciences, 2009
Zoonoses are among the most common forms of disease in nature. Surveys have shown that 816 of 1,407 (58%) human pathogens, including 208 viruses and prions, 538 bacteria and worms, and 317 helminthes, were zoonotic in origin, meaning they could be ...
Dhia Muhammad Taher1 and Darem Tabbaa2
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All clinically-relevant blood components transmit prion disease following a single blood transfusion: a sheep model of vCJD [PDF]

, 2011
Variant CJD (vCJD) is an incurable, infectious human disease, likely arising from the consumption of BSE-contaminated meat products. Whilst the epidemic appears to be waning, there is much concern that vCJD infection may be perpetuated in humans by the ...
Smith, Antony, Ian R. MacGregor, Groschup, Martin H., Hunter, N., Hunter, Nora, Prowse, C.V., Tan, B.C., Hornsey, V.S., Boon Chin Tan, Sandra McCutcheon, Jean C Manson, Antony Smith, E. Fiona Houston, Jean C. Manson, Alejo-Blanco, Richard, Manson, J.C., Tan, Boon Chin, Turner Marc, Manson, Jean C., Houston E. Fiona, Alejo Blanco, A.R., Turner, Marc, Groschup Martin H., MacGregor, Ian R., Houston, Fiona, Christopher V Prowse, Turner, M., E Fiona Houston, Alejo Blanco Anthony Richard, Groschup, M.H., Martin H Groschup, Smith Antony, de Wolf, C., Christopher V. Prowse, Hunter Nora, Prowse, Christopher V., Christopher de Wolf, Anthony Richard Alejo Blanco, MacGregor Ian R., de Wolf Christopher, Marc Turner, de Wolf, Christopher, Valerie S. Hornsey, Smith, A., Manson Jean C., Prowse Christopher V., Ian R MacGregor, Prowse, C. V., Hornsey, Valerie S., McCutcheon Sandra, MacGregor, I.R., McCutcheon, Sandra, Nora Hunter, Tan Boon Chin, Hornsey Valerie S., Martin H. Groschup, McCutcheon, S., Houston, E.F., Valerie S Hornsey   +58 more
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Affected Persons in Laboratory Exposures to Human Pathogens and Toxins in Canada, 2016–2024: A Sector‐Specific Analysis

American Journal of Industrial Medicine, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Exposures to human pathogens and toxins in licensed facilities in Canada have been monitored by a federal surveillance system since 2015, yet the affected persons (APs) in these incidents remain uncharacterized. This study comprehensively describes APs, highlighting sector‐specific patterns and trends over time.
Emily F. Tran, Christine Abalos, Antoinette N. Davis, Audrey Gauthier, Samuel Bonti‐Ankomah   +4 more
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Detection of Prions in Wild Pigs (Sus scrofa) from Areas with Reported Chronic Wasting Disease Cases, United States

Emerging Infectious Diseases
Using a prion amplification assay, we identified prions in tissues from wild pigs (Sus scrofa) living in areas of the United States with variable chronic wasting disease (CWD) epidemiology.
Paulina Soto, Francisca Bravo-Risi, Rebeca Benavente, Tucker H. Stimming, Michael J. Bodenchuk, Patrick Whitley, Clint Turnage, Terry R. Spraker, Justin Greenlee, Glenn Telling, Jennifer Malmberg, Thomas Gidlewski, Tracy Nichols, Vienna R. Brown, Rodrigo Morales   +14 more
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Die Rolle von PrPC in der neuronalen Differenzierung und die Ausbreitung der infektiösen Isoform PrPSc durch Mikrovesikel [PDF]

, 2008
Prion diseases or transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) are rare neurological disorders that may be of genetic or infectious origin, but most frequently occur sporadically in humans. Their outcome is invariably fatal.
Barenco Montrasio, Maria Grazia
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Neurotransmitter‐Defined Degeneration Patterns in Sporadic and C9orf72‐Associated Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: Predilection to GABAergic, Serotonergic, Opioid, Glutamatergic, Endocannabinoid, and Microglial Systems—Implications for Therapy Development

Annals of Neurology, EarlyView.
Objective Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) has a markedly distinctive clinical and neuroradiological signature, with the preferential involvement of specific brain networks and the apparent sparing of others. The molecular underpinnings of the strikingly selective anatomical vulnerability have not been fully elucidated to date despite the potential ...
Marlene Tahedl, We Fong Siah, Jasmin Lope, Jennifer C. Hengeveld, Mark A. Doherty, Russell L. McLaughlin, Orla Hardiman, Ee Ling Tan, Alison Toomey, Jana Kleinerova, Peter Bede   +10 more
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