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ReviewActa neuropathologica2011

Molecular pathology of human prion disease.

Jonathan D F Wadsworth, John Collinge

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Review in Acta neuropathologica, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 54 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

54 citing papers in PubMed.

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  8. New developments in prion disease research.Cell and tissue research · 2023
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  9. Vaccines for prion diseases: a realistic goal?Cell and tissue research · 2023
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  11. The Effect ofInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2022
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  13. Recent Advances in Prion Inactivation by Plasma Sterilizer.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022
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  14. Chronic wasting disease - A prion disease through a One Health lens.The Canadian veterinary journal = La revue veterinaire canadienne · 2022
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  17. Tau strains shape disease.Acta neuropathologica · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Jonathan D F WadsworthMRC Prion Unit, Department of Neurodegenerative Disease, UCL Institute of Neurology, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London, WC1N 3BG, UK. j.d.wadsworth@prion.ucl.ac.uk
John Collinge

Funding

Medical Research Council MC_U123160655Medical Research Council MC_U123192748
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Human prion diseases are associated with a range of clinical presentations and are classified by both clinicopathological syndrome and aetiology with sub-classification according to molecular criteria. Considerable experimental evidence suggests that phenotypic diversity in human prion disease relates in significant part to the existence of distinct human prion strains encoded by abnormal PrP isoforms with differing physicochemical properties. To date, however, the conformational repertoire of pathological isoforms of wild-type human PrP and the various forms of mutant human PrP has not been fully defined. Efforts to produce a unified international classification of human prion disease are still ongoing. The ability of genetic background to influence prion strain selection together with knowledge of numerous other factors that may influence clinical and neuropathological presentation strongly emphasises the requirement to identify distinct human prion strains in appropriate transgenic models, where host genetic variability and other modifiers of phenotype are removed. Defining how many human prion strains exist allied with transgenic modelling of potentially zoonotic prion strains will inform on how many human infections may have an animal origin. Understanding these relationships will have direct translation to protecting public health.

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Animals, Genetically ModifiedAnimalsDisease Models, AnimalHumansPrion DiseasesPrionsProtein IsoformsPrionsProtein Isoforms

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PMID20694796
PMCPMC3015177

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