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ArticleJournal of virology2014

Role of palatine tonsils as a prion entry site in classical and atypical experimental sheep scrapie.

Maria G Cancedda, Giovanni Di Guardo, Roberto Chiocchetti, Francesca Demontis, Giuseppe Marruchella, Caterina Sorteni, Caterina Maestrale, Alfio Lai, Ciriaco Ligios

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Article in Journal of virology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Maria G CanceddaIstituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale of Sardinia, Sassari, Italy.
Giovanni Di Guardo
Roberto Chiocchetti
Francesca Demontis
Giuseppe Marruchella
Caterina Sorteni
Caterina Maestrale
Alfio Lai
Ciriaco Ligios
Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Sardegna · ITUniversity of Bologna · ITUniversity of Teramo · IT

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Atypical and classical scrapie-infected sheep brain tissue was monolaterally injected into the tonsils of lambs to investigate their role as a prion entry point. We first detected classical PrP(Sc) within the inoculated tonsil and in the ipsilateral retropharyngeal lymph node at 3 months postinoculation (p.i.). At 7 months p.i., PrP(Sc) colonized other lymphoid tissues bilaterally, including ileal Peyer's patches. The earliest PrP(Sc) deposition within the brain was ipsilaterally observed at 9 months p.i. in the substantia reticularis of the medulla oblongata. At 12 months p.i., PrP(Sc) deposition was present bilaterally in the nucleus parasympathicus nervi vagi, as well as in the intermediolateral cell column of the thoracolumbar spinal cord. No PrP(Sc) was detected in the lambs inoculated with atypical scrapie. These findings suggest that neuroinvasion may naturally occur from the tonsil after a widespread prion replication within the lymphoid tissues during classical scrapie only, thus mimicking the pathogenesis after oral ingestion.

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AnimalsLymphoid TissuePalatine TonsilPeyer's PatchesPrPSc ProteinsScrapieSheepPrPSc Proteins

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PMID24198416
PMCPMC3911675
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