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ArticleThe American journal of pathology2002

Disease-associated prion protein in vessel walls.

Oskar Koperek, Gábor G Kovács, Diane Ritchie, James W Ironside, Herbert Budka, Georg Wick

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Article in The American journal of pathology, 2002. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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12citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 44 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Risk of transmission of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease by surgical procedures: systematic reviews and quality of evidence.Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin · 2017
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  8. Prion diseases: from protein to cell pathology.The American journal of pathology · 2008
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  12. VEGF: a critical player in neurodegeneration.The Journal of clinical investigation · 2004
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Oskar KoperekInstitute of Neurology, University of Vienna, Waehringer Guertel 18-20, A-1097 Vienna, Austria.
Gábor G Kovács
Diane Ritchie
James W Ironside
Herbert Budka
Georg Wick
University of Vienna · ATAustrian Academy of Sciences · ATUniversity of Edinburgh · GBWestern General Hospital · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Human prion diseases like Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease are infectious, inherited, or sporadic neurodegenerative disorders, characterized by the accumulation of an abnormal isoform of the host-encoded prion protein. This affects nervous tissue in sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and, additionally, in lymphoid tissue in bovine spongiform encephalopathy-linked variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Experimental studies have established the involvement of cells of the lymphoid and peripheral nervous system in the transport of prions to their target central nervous system tissue. To evaluate the role of vessel wall-associated mobile cells, we obtained formalin-fixed tissue blocks from various brain regions and/or basal arteries from sporadic, variant and iatrogenic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, and unselected control cases. We demonstrate disease-associated prion protein deposits in intracranial vessel walls, in sporadic and variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease by performing immunohistochemical staining and paraffin-embedded tissue blotting. Using double immunofluorescence, these deposits co-localize with HLA-DR and S-100 immunoreactive cells in the intima, which are components of the vascular-associated dendritic cell network, as well as with HLA-DR and CD-68 immunopositive macrophages of the intima and media. We conclude that mobile cells in vessel walls like dendritic and monocyte/macrophage lineage cells may be involved in spread of disease-associated prion protein and possibly also of infectivity.

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AnimalsBlood VesselsBrainCattleCerebrovascular CirculationCreutzfeldt-Jakob SyndromeFluorescent Antibody TechniqueHLA-DR AntigensHumansPrPSc ProteinsS100 ProteinsHLA-DR AntigensPrPSc ProteinsS100 Proteins

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PMID12466112
PMCPMC1850927
OpenAlexW2036851625

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