Optimization of the Real-Time Quaking-Induced Conversion Assay for Prion Disease Diagnosis [PDF]
Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 2020 The real-time quaking-induced conversion (RT-QuIC) assay is a highly reproducible and robust methodology exhibiting an excellent pre-mortem diagnostic accuracy for prion diseases.
Inga Zerr +11 more
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Real-Time Quaking- Induced Conversion Assays for Prion Diseases, Synucleinopathies, and Tauopathies [PDF]
Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 2022 Prion diseases, synucleinopathies and tauopathies are neurodegenerative disorders characterized by deposition of abnormal protein aggregates in brain and other tissues.
Sarah Vascellari +2 more
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The Use of Real-Time Quaking-Induced Conversion for the Diagnosis of Human Prion Diseases [PDF]
Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 2022 Prion diseases are rapidly progressive, invariably fatal, transmissible neurodegenerative disorders associated with the accumulation of the amyloidogenic form of the prion protein in the central nervous system (CNS).
Anna Poleggi +5 more
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Defining the Protein Seeds of Neurodegeneration using Real-Time Quaking-Induced Conversion Assays [PDF]
Biomolecules, 2020 Neurodegenerative diseases are characterized by the accumulation of disease-related misfolded proteins. It is now widely understood that the characteristic self-amplifying (i.e., seeding) capacity once only attributed to the prions of transmissible ...
Matteo Manca, Allison Kraus
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Evaluation of Real-Time Quaking-Induced Conversion, ELISA, and Immunohistochemistry for Chronic Wasting Disease Diagnosis [PDF]
Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2022 Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a transmissible prion disorder, primarily affecting free-ranging and captive cervids in North America (United States and Canada), South Korea, and Europe (Finland, Norway, and Sweden).
Carine L. Holz +6 more
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Development of α-Synuclein Real-Time Quaking-Induced Conversion as a Diagnostic Method for α-Synucleinopathies [PDF]
Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 2021 Parkinson’s disease, dementia with Lewy bodies, and multiple system atrophy are characterized by aggregation of abnormal α-synuclein (α-syn) and collectively referred to as α-synucleinopathy. Because these diseases have different prognoses and treatments,
Takehiro Nakagaki +2 more
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Assessment of Real-Time Quaking-Induced Conversion (RT-QuIC) Assay, Immunohistochemistry and ELISA for Detection of Chronic Wasting Disease under Field Conditions in White-Tailed Deer: A Bayesian Approach [PDF]
Pathogens, 2022 Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a transmissible prion disease of the cervidae family. ELISA and IHC tests performed postmortem on the medial retropharyngeal lymph nodes (RPLN) or obex are considered diagnostic gold standards for prion detection. However,
Catalina Picasso-Risso +6 more
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Development of a sensitive real-time quaking-induced conversion (RT-QuIC) assay for application in prion-infected blood [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2023 Efforts to prevent human-to-human transmission of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) by contaminated blood would be aided by the development of a sensitive diagnostic test that could be routinely used to screen blood donations.
Charlotte M. Thomas +7 more
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Evaluation of Winter Ticks (Dermacentor albipictus) Collected from North American Elk (Cervus canadensis) in an Area of Chronic Wasting Disease Endemicity for Evidence of PrP CWD Amplification Using Real-Time Quaking-Induced Conversion Assay [PDF]
mSphere, 2021 This study reports the first finding of detectable levels of prions linked to chronic wasting disease in a tick collected from a clinically infected elk.
N. J. Haley +4 more
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Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: Real-Time Quaking Induced Conversion (RT-QuIC) assay represents a major diagnostic advance [PDF]
European Journal of Histochemistry, 2021 Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (sCJD) is a rare and fatal neurodegenerative disorder with an incidence of 1.5 to 2 cases per million population/year. The disease is caused by a proteinaceous infectious agent, named prion (or PrPSc), which arises from
Federico Angelo Cazzaniga +6 more
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