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ArticleScientific reports2023

PMCA screening of retropharyngeal lymph nodes in white-tailed deer and comparisons with ELISA and IHC.

Rebeca Benavente, J Hunter Reed, Mitch Lockwood, Rodrigo Morales

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Article in Scientific reports, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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4 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Rebeca BenaventeDepartment of Neurology, McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA.
J Hunter ReedTexas Parks and Wildlife Department, Kerrville, TX, USA.
Mitch LockwoodTexas Parks and Wildlife Department, Kerrville, TX, USA.
Rodrigo MoralesDepartment of Neurology, McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA. Rodrigo.MoralesLoyola@uth.tmc.edu.
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department · USThe University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston · USUniversidad Bernardo O'Higgins · CL

Funding

Shedding, retention and spreading of chronic wasting disease prions in the environmentR01AI132695 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR HOUSTON · PI Rodrigo Morales · 2017 to 2026
$4.6M
Infection-driven mechanisms associated with Alzheimer's disease pathologyRF1AG072491 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR HOUSTON · PI BARICHELLO, TATIANA, MORALES, RODRIGO · 2021 to 2021
$2.0M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI132695NIA NIH HHS RF1 AG072491
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a prion disease affecting cervids. CWD diagnosis is conducted through enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and immunohistochemistry (IHC) in retropharyngeal lymph nodes. Unfortunately, these techniques have limited sensitivity against the biomarker (CWD-prions). Two in vitro prion amplification techniques, real-time quaking-induced conversion (RT-QuIC) and protein misfolding cyclic amplification (PMCA), have shown promise in detecting CWD-prions in tissues and bodily fluids. Recent studies have demonstrated that RT-QuIC yields similar results compared to ELISA and IHC. Here, we analyzed 1003 retropharyngeal lymph nodes (RPLNs) from Texas white-tailed deer. PMCA detected CWD at a higher rate compared to ELISA/IHC, identified different prion strains, and revealed the presence of CWD-prions in places with no previous history. These findings suggest that PMCA exhibits greater sensitivity than current standard techniques and could be valuable for rapid and strain-specific CWD detection.

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DeerPrionsWasting Disease, ChronicAnimalsEnzyme-Linked Immunosorbent AssayImmunohistochemistryLymph NodesPrions

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