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ArticleScience translational medicine2016

Detection of prions in blood from patients with variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

Luis Concha-Marambio, Sandra Pritzkow, Fabio Moda, Fabrizio Tagliavini, James W Ironside, Paul E Schulz, Claudio Soto

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Article in Science translational medicine, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 84 papers.

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84citing papers in PubMed
11.5field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

84 citing papers in PubMed, 164 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Luis Concha-MarambioMitchell Center for Alzheimer's Disease and Related Brain Disorders, University of Texas Houston Medical School, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
Sandra PritzkowMitchell Center for Alzheimer's Disease and Related Brain Disorders, University of Texas Houston Medical School, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
Fabio ModaMitchell Center for Alzheimer's Disease and Related Brain Disorders, University of Texas Houston Medical School, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
Fabrizio TagliaviniIRCCS Foundation Carlo Besta Neurological Institute, Milan, Italy.
James W IronsideNational CJD Research and Surveillance Unit, Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, U.K.
Paul E SchulzMitchell Center for Alzheimer's Disease and Related Brain Disorders, University of Texas Houston Medical School, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
Claudio SotoMitchell Center for Alzheimer's Disease and Related Brain Disorders, University of Texas Houston Medical School, Houston, TX 77030, USA. claudio.soto@uth.tmc.edu.
Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta · IT

Funding

Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences (CCTS)UL1TR000371 · NCATS · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR HOUSTON · PI MCPHERSON, DAVID D · 2012 to 2016
$13.4M
Neuropathology Core - P GambettiP01AI106705 · NIAID · CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY · PI GAMBETTI, PIERLUIGI · 2014 to 2018
$7.7M
Cyclic Amplification of Prion Protein MisfoldingR01NS049173 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BR GALVESTON · PI SOTO, CLAUDIO · 2005 to 2014
$3.2M
Development of a Biochemical Diagnosis for Creutzfeldt-Jakob diseaseSB1NS079060 · NINDS · AMPRION, INC. · PI LEBOVITZ, RUSSELL M, SOTO, CLAUDIO · 2016 to 2017
$2.5M
Development of a Biochemical Diagnosis for Creutzfeldt-Jakob diseaseR42NS079060 · NINDS · AMPRION, INC. · PI LEBOVITZ, RUSSELL M, SOTO, CLAUDIO · 2012 to 2014
$1.2M
Department of HealthMedical Research Council G0600953Medical Research Council G0900580NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR000371NIAID NIH HHS P01 AI106705NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS049173NINDS NIH HHS R42 NS079060NINDS NIH HHS SB1 NS079060
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Human prion diseases are infectious and invariably fatal neurodegenerative diseases. They include sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (sCJD), the most common form, and variant CJD (vCJD), which is caused by interspecies transmission of prions from cattle infected by bovine spongiform encephalopathy. Development of a biochemical assay for the sensitive, specific, early, and noninvasive detection of prions (PrP

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Case-Control StudiesCreutzfeldt-Jakob SyndromeHematologic TestsHumansItalyPrionsSensitivity and SpecificityUnited KingdomPrions

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PMID28003548
PMCPMC5538786
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