Recent Publications on Mad Cow Disease Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease: |  |
Age of onset and death in inherited prion disease are heritable.
The common polymorphism at codon 129 of the prion protein gene (PRNP) is...
Direct Link | 30th August, 2008
| MRC Prion Unit, Department of Neurodegenerative Disease, UCL Institute of
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Potential effect of excluding variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease on the eye donor pool in Australia.
PURPOSE: To quantitate the likely effect on the available eye donor pool...
Direct Link | 22nd August, 2008
| Queensland Eye Bank, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, Australia.
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Atypical BSE (BASE) transmitted from asymptomatic aging cattle to a primate.
BACKGROUND: Human variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD) results from...
Direct Link | 21st August, 2008
| Institute of Emerging Diseases and Innovative Therapies, CEA,
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Acute cellular uptake of abnormal prion protein is cell type and scrapie-strain independent.
Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) are fatal...
Direct Link | 12th August, 2008
| Rocky Mountain Laboratories, Laboratory of Persistent Viral Diseases,
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Detection and characterization of proteinase K-sensitive disease-related prion protein with thermolysin.
Disease-related prion protein, PrPSc, is classically distinguished from...
Direct Link | 8th August, 2008
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No major change in vCJD agent strain after secondary transmission via blood transfusion.
BACKGROUND: The identification of transmission of variant...
Direct Link | 7th August, 2008
| National CJD Surveillance Unit, University of Edinburgh, Western General
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Review. The changing face of kuru: a personal perspective.
The epidemic of kuru is now known to have been transmitted among the Fore...
Direct Link | 2nd August, 2008
| School of Population Health, University of Melbourne, Carlton, Victoria
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| Prion diseases and emerging prion diseases.
| 30th July, 2008
| Prion Disease Research Center, National Institute of Animal Health, 3-1-5
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Characterisation of new monoclonal antibodies reacting with prions from both human and animal brain tissues.
Post-mortem diagnosis of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (prion...
Direct Link | 29th July, 2008
| National Veterinary Institute, Technical University of Denmark, Bulowsvej
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Prions and the proteasome.
Prion diseases are fatal neurodegenerative disorders that include...
Direct Link | 23rd July, 2008
| Department of Neurodegenerative Disease, Institute of Neurology,
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Prevalence of the prion protein gene E211K variant in U.S. cattle.
BACKGROUND: In 2006, an atypical U.S. case of bovine spongiform...
Direct Link | 16th July, 2008
| USDA, ARS, U, S, Meat Animal Research Center (USMARC), State Spur 18D,
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Kuru: Its ramifications after fifty years.
Kuru was the first human neurodegenerative disease in the group of...
Direct Link | 9th July, 2008
| Laboratory of Electron Microscopy and Neuropathology, Department of
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The variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease: Risk, uncertainty or safety in the use of blood and blood derivatives?
ABSTRACT: It has been long since French physician Jean-Baptiste Denys...
Direct Link | 25th June, 2008
| Department of Physiology, Biology School, Universidad Complutense of
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Experimental transmission of bovine spongiform encephalopathy to European red deer (Cervus elaphus elaphus).
BACKGROUND: Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), a member of the...
Direct Link | 30th May, 2008
| Moredun Research Institute, Pentlands Science Park, Bush Loan, Penicuik,
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alpha-Hemoglobin stabilizing protein is not a suitable marker for a screening test for variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
BACKGROUND: A test is needed to identify blood donors who are in the...
Direct Link | 28th May, 2008
| Bristol Institute for Transfusion Sciences, National Blood Service,
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