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Quantum dots and prion proteins: is this a new challenge for neurodegenerative diseases imaging?

Pavlina Sobrova, Iva Blazkova, Jana Chomoucka, Jana Drbohlavova, Marketa Vaculovicova, Pavel Kopel, Jaromir Hubalek, Rene Kizek, Vojtech Adam

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3 · Its place in the literature

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1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Pavlina SobrovaDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry; Faculty of Agronomy; Mendel University in Brno; Brno, Czech Republic EU; Central European Institute of Technology; Brno University of Technology; Brno, Czech Republic EU.
Iva BlazkovaDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry; Faculty of Agronomy; Mendel University in Brno; Brno, Czech Republic EU.
Jana ChomouckaCentral European Institute of Technology; Brno University of Technology; Brno, Czech Republic EU.
Jana DrbohlavovaCentral European Institute of Technology; Brno University of Technology; Brno, Czech Republic EU.
Marketa VaculovicovaDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry; Faculty of Agronomy; Mendel University in Brno; Brno, Czech Republic EU; Central European Institute of Technology; Brno University of Technology; Brno, Czech Republic EU.
Pavel KopelDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry; Faculty of Agronomy; Mendel University in Brno; Brno, Czech Republic EU; Central European Institute of Technology; Brno University of Technology; Brno, Czech Republic EU.
Jaromir HubalekCentral European Institute of Technology; Brno University of Technology; Brno, Czech Republic EU.
Rene KizekDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry; Faculty of Agronomy; Mendel University in Brno; Brno, Czech Republic EU; Central European Institute of Technology; Brno University of Technology; Brno, Czech Republic EU.
Vojtech AdamDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry; Faculty of Agronomy; Mendel University in Brno; Brno, Czech Republic EU; Central European Institute of Technology; Brno University of Technology; Brno, Czech Republic EU.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A diagnostics of infectious diseases can be done by the immunologic methods or by the amplification of nucleic acid specific to contagious agent using polymerase chain reaction. However, in transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, the infectious agent, prion protein (PrP(Sc)), has the same sequence of nucleic acids as a naturally occurring protein. The other issue with the diagnosing based on the PrP(Sc) detection is that the pathological form of prion protein is abundant only at late stages of the disease in a brain. Therefore, the diagnostics of prion protein caused diseases represent a sort of challenges as that hosts can incubate infectious prion proteins for many months or even years. Therefore, new in vivo assays for detection of prion proteins and for diagnosis of their relation to neurodegenerative diseases are summarized. Their applicability and future prospects in this field are discussed with particular aim at using quantum dots as fluorescent labels.

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Fluorescent DyesQuantum DotsAnimalsBrainHumansModels, MolecularNeurodegenerative DiseasesPrion DiseasesPrionsFluorescent DyesPrionsimaginglabelneurodegenerative diseaseprion proteinquantum dots

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PMID24055838
PMCPMC4134339

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